Misgrowth

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An unnatural or abnormal growth. countable, uncountable

    "c. 1810-1834? Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Henry More […] their physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic and a misgrowth of entia rationalia, that is, substantiated abstractions […]"

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"c. 1810-1834? Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Henry More […] their physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic and a misgrowth of entia rationalia, that is, substantiated abstractions […]"

Etymology

From mis- + growth.

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