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View definitions for progeniture

progeniture

noun as in brood

noun as in descendant

noun as in genealogy

noun as in issue

noun as in progeny

noun as in seed

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Example Sentences

And who could ever have contained that digital virus, spreading through our invisible networks in just a few terrible weeks, depriving everyone beyond the age of infant-learned receptivity of their will to work, to eat, to remove their headphones even in the face of their deepest instincts for survival and progeniture?

From Nature

We constantly see parents deficient in a limb, or misshapen, producing perfect offspring; if each part of the economy was to transmit to its progeniture molecules similar to itself, the child would naturally be visited with the imperfection of the parent.

But the Mosaic law proceeded even beyond this, and allowed, on the husband's death, the right of Iboom, usually called the Levirate law, so that in case of there being no child, some one of the deceased's brothers had a right to take some one of the deceased's wives: and their progeny was deemed by the Mosaic code to be his deceased brother's, whose property indeed devolved in the line of such progeniture.

The higher oviparous vertebrates, especially the birds, take care of their progeniture for some time after laying.

And named after the progeniture of Jupiter65 thou shalt give birth to swarthy Epaphus, who shall reap the harvest of all the land which the wide-streaming Nile waters.

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

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