They are crescive when they take shape in the mores, growing by the instinctive efforts by which the mores are produced. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
The great and crescive self, rooted in absolute nature, supplants all relative existence and ruins the kingdom of mortal friendship and love. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — Second Series] Reference
The great and crescive self, rooted in absolute nature, supplants all relative existence, and ruins the kingdom of mortal friendship and love. From Wordnik.com. [Essays: Second Series (1844)] Reference
Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty. From Wordnik.com. [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference
Institutions are either crescive or enacted. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
By crescive paths and strange protuberant ways. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke] Reference
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