Increment vs Inurement - What's the difference?
increment | inurement |
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."
Custom, habituation; normal practice.
Benefit; for example, the 501c3 prohibition against "private inurement" within non-profit entities means that individuals within that organization may not receive excessive compensation or benefit from their employment or association, because such arrangements would contravene the supposed mission of the organization.
(legal) In patent law, the doctrine that the work done by a person hired by an inventor to test a conception supports the right of that inventor to the resulting invention.
As nouns the difference between increment and inurement
is that increment is increment while inurement is custom, habituation; normal practice.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.