Both Uses
accumulate
in
Civil Disobedience, by Thoreau
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- I have contemplated the imprisonment of the offender, rather than the seizure of his goods—though both will serve the same purpose—because they who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time in accumulating property.†
accumulating = collecting or gradually increasing
- It will not be worth the while to accumulate property; that would be sure to go again.†
*accumulate = collect or gradually increase
Definitions:
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(1)
(accumulate) to collect or gradually increase
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)