antigenerative

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adjective

Opposing generation or procreation.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectiveantigenerative (comparative more antigenerative, superlative most antigenerative)

comparative more antigenerative · superlative most antigenerative

  1. Opposing generation or procreation.

    Her desire is a desire to die, and the dark tomb is described as her bridal chamber. She is placed at the end of generations: an antigenerative force, childless, perverted, an incestuous offspring.

    2010, Fanny Söderbäck, Feminist Readings of Antigone, page 76
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    If the seed packets (and the absence of seeds in them) begin to suggest the generative sterility-in-mass-production, the incapacity of those in a female workforce to conceive, the antigenerative quality of this work becomes still more apparent when we consider in greater detail the paper that the mill produces.

    1997, Michael Newbury, Figuring authorship in antebellum America, page 64

Origin

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Chicago

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