partible

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With partible paternity, the woman’s role in producing babies is typically downgraded, unsurprisingly, to “receptacle.”

From Washington Post

There was co-operation in working the fields but no communistic division of the crops, and the individual's hold upon his strips developed rapidly into an inheritable and partible ownership.

From Project Gutenberg

Antonyms: See impartial. partiality, n. bias, favoritism; predilection, inclination, fondness, predisposition, bent. partible, a. separable, divisible, detachable, dissoluble, severable.

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Associated word: cordon. separable, a. divisible, detachable, severable, partible.

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