Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing many offspring; prolific.
- adjective Loving one's offspring or children in general.
- adjective Of or relating to love of children.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fond of offspring; inclined to beget offspring; of or pertaining to fondness for offspring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the love of offspring; fond of children.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Prolific , orproducing manyoffspring . - adjective
Loving one's offspring.
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Examples
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The word "philoprogenitive" and the French phrase stopped her.
Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924
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I have to admit that Victoria and Albert, on the one hand, and the Bunker brothers, on the other, were pretty philoprogenitive.
Gibbon Chapter XIX nwhyte 2010
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There had always been a strongly domestic, philoprogenitive side to Soames; baulked and frustrated, it had hidden itself away, but now had crept out again in this his ‘prime of life.’
In Chancery 2004
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CAVERNOSA to rapidly dilate in such a way as to instantaneously facilitate the flow of blood to that part of the human anatomy known as the penis or male organ resulting in the phenomenon which has been denominated by the faculty a morbid upwards and outwards philoprogenitive erection IN ARTICULO MORTIS PER DIMINUTIONEM
Ulysses 2003
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The fix is quite tricky, because Madame's people seem to've anticipated some kind of jiggery-pokery among the philoprogenitive.
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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Then there is the intellectual laugh, the love laugh, the horse laugh, the philoprogenitive laugh, the friendly laugh, and many other kinds of laugh, each indicative of corresponding mental developments.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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Then there is the intellectual laugh, the love laugh, the horse laugh, the philoprogenitive laugh, the friendly laugh, and many other kinds of laugh, each indicative of corresponding mental developments.
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The waxen pellet which packed the powder hit him smartly on the philoprogenitive bump, and he swore audibly.
The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography David Christie Murray
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These are interspersed with a number of philoprogenitive letters to Lady Clarke, -- her
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If they fail to reproduce their kind, they have failed in their purpose; they are unconsciously ruled by the philoprogenitive passion; it is their raison d'etre, for it they are fed, clothed, trained, bred.
Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924
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