germen
noun
a germ.
germens
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pluralof germen.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, That make ingrateful man! and Shakespeare's judgment on the worth of existence that we hear in Lear's agonised cry, 'No, no, no life!'?
From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
In the light of such a thought, we can see how Nature might, when solitary Adam lived, fulfil Lear's wild conjuration, and "All the germens spill At once that make ingrateful man."
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That make ungrateful man....
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
And it has been thus with the harder-coated germens of the Wealth of Nations.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
It was as if the treasure of Nature's germens were tumbling all together.
From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by George MacDonald
