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impregnant

adjective as in virgin

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The past returns on him with tyrannous power,—early associations, the taking up of his knightly vows with all its grand religious and heroic accompaniments, the delegated and accepted trust which he has by forsaking betrayed—       “The life that made His full-formed self, as the impregnant sap Of years successive frames the full-branched tree”— all come back with stern reproach and denunciation of the apostate who, in hope of the outward realisation of a human love, has cast off and forsworn them all. 

Antonyms: See mild. violet, n. mauve. violin, n. fiddle; kit. virgin, n. vestal. virgin, a. vestal, virginal; chaste, pure, stainless; impregnant. virginal generation. parthenogenesis. virginity, n. maidenhood, chastity.

But if the drink were mixed with the dry meat in the belly, it must be impregnant with its qualities, and not come forth so simple and untinged.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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