资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Accrescence \Ac*cres"cence\, n. [LL. accrescentia.]
   Continuous growth; an accretion. [R.]

         The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched
         depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy.
                                                  --Coleridge.