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upgrowth en · NOUN

Etymology

From up- + growth.

Meanings

1. The process or result of growing up; progress; development.
   • the new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy 1876, John Richard Green, The History of the English People:
   • The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called "Christian civilization," and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of petty Philistinism and niaiserie. 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 188:

Forms

Translations (5)

de Wachstum (process or result of growing up) · fr dévelopement (process or result of growing up) · bg развитие (process or result of growing up) · fr croissance (process or result of growing up) · bg растеж (process or result of growing up)