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Meaning of proletaneous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Having numerous offspring.

rare

Examples

“When heads of families did their shopping, they could unostentatiously slip into "The Stoat and Hammer," and manage the business of the nation upon those drastic principles so dear to the hearts of the proletarian and proletaneous dwellers in Little Lambton Street.”
“Twinning also was very common in the flock to which this proletaneous ewe belonged, for last year 402 ewes had produced 642 lambs .”
“They were conscious of Australia as once a convict colony and still a retreat for a proletariat over-proletaneous since machinery was making so many men superfluous in industry.”
“What are a few things like that compared with proletaneous human beings?”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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