geniture
Example Sentences
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It was thought that this was impossible in our republic because we had no law of primogeniture, but we have another kind of geniture that is very effective.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
And so I grew to see The deepest truths of God, and God Himself, The geniture of all things, of the Word Becoming flesh in Christ.
From Toward the Gulf by Masters, Edgar Lee
For Cancer suits one as well as the other, and therefore I put nothing upon him, that I might not press my own geniture.
From The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter by Burnaby, William
God Himself is so near thee that the geniture of the Holy Trinity is continually being wrought in thy heart.
From Jacob Behmen an appreciation by Whyte, Alexander
Pliny saith, Shell fish is the wonderful geniture of a pearl congealed into a diaphanous stone, and the shell is called the mother of pearl.
From The Parables of Our Lord by Arnot, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.