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Growth   /groʊθ/   Listen
Growth

noun
1.
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level.  Synonyms: development, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.
2.
A progression from simpler to more complex forms.
3.
A process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important.  Synonyms: increase, increment.  "The growth of population"
4.
Vegetation that has grown.  "The only growth was some salt grass"
5.
The gradual beginning or coming forth.  Synonyms: emergence, outgrowth.
6.
(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor).
7.
Something grown or growing.



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"Growth" Quotes from Famous Books



... one with which I, as an individual, have found it most difficult to clothe the Infinite. I mean that it is the one for which it is hardest for me to develop what William James calls "a feeling," an inner realisation. I lay no stress upon this. It is a question of growth. The Presence, the Thought, the Love have become to me what I may be permitted to call tremulously vivid. In proportion as they are vivid I get the "feeling" of Almightiness exercised on my behalf; in proportion as they are tremulous the Almightiness may remain in my consciousness, ...
— The Conquest of Fear • Basil King
... the prettiest and most thriving little towns in the west. Situated, as it is, in the midst of one of the finest agricultural districts in the country, its growth has been rapid beyond expectation, while its social progress has been almost phenomenal. Stretching for miles in all directions, over a country beautifully interspersed with gentle elevations and depressions, lie the well-cultivated farms of the honest ...
— The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives • Allan Pinkerton
... the part of the play supplied by Shakespeare's assistants in the last three acts—miserably weak some of it was—they were able to disentangle the early love-play from the latter work in which Iago was principally concerned. There was at least fifteen years' growth between them, the steps of which could he traced in the poet's intermediate plays by any one who chose to work carefully enough at them. Set any of the speeches addressed in the Shakespeare part of the last act by Othello to Desdemona beside the consolatory address of ...
— A Study of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... stimulated a desire for learning, created a respect for it, and began a movement toward free investigation, and for the promulgation of liberal ideas, which gains strength with each decade of the world's history. They have greatly contributed to the growth of knowledge, to the advancement of science, and to ...
— History of Education • Levi Seeley
... in Jesus Christ. And this should always be minded that the amplest grounds of the strongest consolation are general to all that come indeed to Jesus Christ, and are not restricted unto saints of such and such a growth and stature. The common principles of the gospel are more full of this milk of consolation, if you would suck it out of them, than many particular grounds which you are laying down for yourselves. God hath so disposed and contrived the work of our salvation, ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning


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