Meanings
nounprogeneration (usually uncountable, plural progenerations)
plural progenerations
- uncountableusuallyThe act of begetting; propagation, bearing children, or reproduction.
The visible world itself, from whatever point of view we regard it, bears witness that it has been created for no other end than that it may serve for the progeneration, the nutrition, and the training of the human race.
1896, Johan Amos Comenius, translated by Maurice Walter Keatinge, The Great Didactic of John Amos Comenius, Chapter 3
Origin
- Latinprogeneratio
- Englishprogeneration
Latin progeneratio.
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