Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Procreating; producing young; related to or connected with reproduction.
- noun One who or that which procreates or generates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Generating; producing; productive; fruitful; assisting in procreation.
- noun One who, or that which, procreates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That
procreates - adjective Of or pertaining to
procreation ;procreative - noun One who, or that which, procreates.
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Examples
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Theres another line in the poem that says, urge and urge and urge, always the procreant urge of the world, the continuous presence of the sexual energy of living.
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This lust, then, is not in itself the good of the nuptial institution; but it is obscenity in sinful men, a necessity in procreant parents, the fire of lascivious indulgences, the shame of nuptial pleasures.
The Purity of Mary elena maria vidal 2009
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This lust, then, is not in itself the good of the nuptial institution; but it is obscenity in sinful men, a necessity in procreant parents, the fire of lascivious indulgences, the shame of nuptial pleasures.
Archive 2009-08-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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Cf. ‘no jutty, frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.’
Quentin Durward 2008
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Soon enough a "guest of summer" — the king himself — will be murdered in his bed; Scotland's "procreant cradle" will give way to slaughtered children; and the delicate air, the sweet-scented breath of heaven, will thicken and grow rank with the stench of blood and offal.
In the Night Kitchen Greenblatt, Stephen 2008
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Timor et moestitia, si diu perseverent, causa et soboles atri humoris sunt, et in circulum se procreant.
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Nam spiritus cerebri si tum male afficiantur, tales procreant, et quales fuerint affectus, tales filiorum: ex tristibus tristes, ex jucundis jucundi nascuntur, &c. 1338.
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Euterpe and Terpsichore, preparing even then his pathway to the great poems of Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, the sonnets and the immortal plays that were incubating in the procreant soul of the Divine Bard.
Shakspere, Personal Recollections John A. Joyce
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In a vague, inchoate sort of way, Lilly at sixteen was visualizing nature procreant as an abominable woman creature standing shank deep in spongy swampland and from behind that portentous curtain moaning in the agonized key of Mrs. Kemble.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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Cry out and fend her off, as she seeks her procreant groom,
The Prophet David Herbert 1916
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