Excrement vs Increment - What's the difference?
excrement | increment |
(archaic) Any waste matter excreted from the human or animal body, or discharged by bodily organs.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.97:
Animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.
The action of increasing or becoming greater.
* Woodward
* Coleridge
(heraldry) The waxing of the moon.
The amount of increase.
(rhetoric) An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, think on these things."
As nouns the difference between excrement and increment
is that excrement is any waste matter excreted from the human or animal body, or discharged by bodily organs while increment is the action of increasing or becoming greater.As a verb increment is
to increase by steps or by a step, especially by one.excrement
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- A French Gentleman was ever wont to blow his nose in his hand. He asked me on a time, what privilege this filthie excrement had, that wee should have a daintie linnen cloth or handkercher to receive the same.
Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
From (etyl) .increment
English
Noun
(en noun)- the seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies
- A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
