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accruement|əˈkruːmənt|
[f. accrue v. + -ment.]
The process or work of accruing; hence,
1. The action of falling to any one, as a natural growth or accession; the coming into existence or becoming due of interest on money.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. (1632) ix. vii. 530 He did unquestionably vpon the first accruement of the interest..exercise all the offices of the royall power. 1672R. Taylor Cromwell 10 The glory and grandeur of that renowned succession to, and accrument of, Dominion.
2. That which accrues or has accrued; an addition or accession by natural growth; an increment.
1607T. Walkington Opt. Glasse of Hum. Ep. Ded. 2 It brings a great accrument unto wisdome and learning. 1622Heylyn Cosmogr. (1682) ii. 73 Much impoverished in their Estates by Marriages and other accruments. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. 95 We shall not finde any great affluence of temporall accruements. 1662Fuller Worthies iii. 164 The Knight calmly gave in the unquestionable particulars of the Bottom he began on, the accrewment by his Marriage, and what was advanced by his industry and frugality. 1678Jer. Taylor Suppl. Serm. 245 For ever receiving new Additions and fresh Accruments. |