geniture
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Origin of geniture
1540–50; ( Middle French ) < Latin genitūra. See genital, -ure
Example Sentences
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Pliny saith, Shell fish is the wonderful geniture of a pearl congealed into a diaphanous stone, and the shell is called the mother of pearl.
From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot
Thy geniture, and thy redeeming power Transcend the known extent of nature's dower: But pity weak mortality—that tries To reach, what may elude all human eyes!
From Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author by William Hayley
Moreover it eliquateth the pinguie substance of the kidneys, and absumeth the geniture.
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh
It was thought that this was impossible in our republic because we had no law of primogeniture, but we have another kind of geniture that is very effective.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
For Cancer suits one as well as the other, and therefore I put nothing upon him, that I might not press my own geniture.
From The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter by William Burnaby
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