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Upgrowth

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Noun
  1. 1
    The process or result of growing up; progress; development.

    "The thorough and shameless commercialism of Sex has alas! been reserved for what is called "Christian civilization," and with it (perhaps as a necessary consequence) Prostitution and Syphilis have grown into appalling evils, accompanied by a gigantic degradation of social standards, and upgrowth of petty Philistinism and niaiserie."

Etymology

From up- + growth.

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