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Webster 1913 Edition
Encrease
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encrease
encrease
English
Noun
encrease (plural encreases)
- Obsolete spelling of increase
Verb
encrease (third-person singular simple present encreases, present participle encreasing, simple past and past participle encreased)
- Obsolete spelling of increase
- John Orrery
- […] the coldness of her lover, the loss of her reputation, all contributed to make her miserable, and to encrease the frenzical disposition of her mind.
- John Orrery
References
- encrease in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913