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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
fecundate .
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Examples
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The imaginary river that fecundates the flood-plain in the brain-pan belongs to the simulacral Troy, parvam Troiam, that Andromache builds in the Aeneid, in captivity, after her city was destroyed.
An Excess of Reality : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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It is only really amongst the Greeks where rationalism in its purest form finds a foothold and later fecundates Western thought.
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It is only really amongst the Greeks where rationalism in its purest form finds a foothold and later fecundates Western thought.
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Ahmed; divides them in two, and fecundates its gardens planted with orange-trees, pomegranates, and fig-trees.
Travels in Morocco 2003
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The disturbance in Mr. Symons is almost, but not quite, to the point of creating; the reading sometimes fecundates his emotions to produce something new which is not criticism, but is not the expulsion, the ejection, the birth of creativeness. 5
The Perfect Critic Thomas Stearns 1920
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The male, which only lives for a few hours, and resembles a moth, nevertheless recognises his mate in spite of these adverse circumstances, and fecundates her.
Unconscious Memory Samuel Butler 1868
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a necessity of true life by which the individual renews his vital force in the vital force of humanity; it is a Holy Communion with generations dead and living, by which he fecundates all his faculties.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910
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