progeny
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒəni/ / /ˈpɹɑd͡ʒəni/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English progenie, from Old French progenie, from Latin prōgeniēs, from prōgignō (“beget”).
- Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
“I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.”
“I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny.”
- Descent, lineage, ancestry.
“Beſides, all French and France exclaimes on thee, / Doubting thy Birth and lawfull Progenie. / Who ioyn’ſt thou with, but with a Lordly Nation, / That will not truſt thee, but for profits ſake ?”
- A result of a creative effort.
“His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.”