Meanings
comparative more inseminable · superlative most inseminable
- Able to be inseminated or impregnated.
Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera.
1971, Gottfried Benn, E. B. Ashton, Primal vision: selected writings1 more example
No subject better brought to light the relationship between benevolence, sympathy, and oppositional thought than that of the wronged woman, particularly if she was of inseminable age and fetchingly vulnerable to male wiles.
1996, V. A. C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People
Origin
- Latininsēminābilis
- Englishinseminable
From Latin insēminābilis.
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French inséminable
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