progenitive
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of progenitive
First recorded in 1830–40; progenit(or) + -ive
Example Sentences
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This kind of reading is necessarily singular and labor-intensive rather than dialectical or progenitive.
From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2010
The Gauchos call the former the "Padre del sal," and the latter the "Madre;" they state that these progenitive salts always occur on the borders of the salinas, when the water begins to evaporate.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles
Thus a spiritual gingham impressed upon his soul of souls a matrix, out of which, by a fine progenitive effort, he now begets and ejects a materialized gingham into a potato-plot of the garden without.
From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert
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