phylon
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of phylon
< New Latin < Greek phŷlon race, tribe, class, akin to phȳ́ein to bring forth, produce, be
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Once in the phylon many of these activities were elaborated in the life and death struggle for existence.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley
Words like phylon, genos, gens, natio, kin, all point to the natural family as the origin of all society.
From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Eliot, Charles William
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