Progeny

Definitions

1. Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
   uncountable
2. Descent, lineage, ancestry.
   obsolete, uncountable
3. A result of a creative effort.
   countable, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“One worm on a single plate can give⟳ rise⟳ to thousands of progeny after just a week or so.”

“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 ?”

“His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date⟳.”

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