Copulation

Definitions

1. The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
   countable
2. Sexual procreation between a man and a woman or transfer of the sperm from male to female; usually applied to the mating process in nonhuman animals; coitus; coition.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I quite correctly defined logical copulation by means [of] the copula of inclusion.”

“Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.”

“In the dusky streets around me ruled an innocent and open⟳ copulation. The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens.”

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