enhancement

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ENH'ANCEMENT, noun Rise; increase; augmentation; as the enhancement of value, price, enjoyment, pleasure, beauty. 1. Increase; aggravation; as the enhancement of evil, grief, punishment, guilt or crime.
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