Increep
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Increep is a verb meaning (intransitive, poetic) To creep in; to make a furtive entrance.
Meaning
(intransitive, poetic) To creep in; to make a furtive entrance.
Example Sentences
It seemed a thing for weeping / To find, at slumber's wane / And morning's sly increeping, / That Now, not Then, held reign.
1849, Henoch Clapham, quoted in Jane Eliza Leeson, Chapters on Deacons First, order gone, and doores not being kept, / By baptisme heaps of prophane do rush. / With them, at length, a ministry incrept, / That with the horn God's ordinance did push.
Word Forms
- increeps
- increeping
- incrept
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include creep, undercreep, becreep, insinuate, upcreep, ingress.
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