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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”).

  1. 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.

  2. 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 ?

  3. A result of a creative effort.

    His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.

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