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Adjective- Capable of growth.

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  • They are crescive when they take shape in the mores, growing by the instinctive efforts by which the mores are produced.
  • The great and crescive self, rooted in absolute nature, supplants all relative existence and ruins the kingdom of mortal friendship and love.
  • The great and crescive self, rooted in absolute nature, supplants all relative existence, and ruins the kingdom of mortal friendship and love.
  • Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.
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