enhancement

[Eng. enhance; -ment.] 1. The act of increasing, or raising, as in price. "Their yearly rents are not improved, the landlords making no le gain by fines than by enhancement of rents."-Bacon: Office of Alienations. 2. The state of being increased, augmented, or raised; a rise or increase, as in price. "This enhancement may easily be proved not to be owing to the increase of taxes, but to uniform increase of consumption and of money." -Burke: Late State of the Nation . 3. An increasing, heightening, or making greater; an aggravation. "Jocular slanders have, from the slightne of the temptation, an enhancement of guilt."-Government of the Tongue.