Meaning of reptilehood | Babel Free

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The state or essence of being a reptile.

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Examples

“And so, though you, or Dr. Bellows, or an Archangel, should convince⟳ a Christian that the theatre, or the card-table, or a fancy ball, or a racecourse, were quite proper as religious amusements, still you must, moreover, unregenerate the man's taste⟳, enveloping his spiritual wings back again into reptilehood, ere you can persuade⟳ him to rejoice in them.”

“At some point⟳ in the long evolutionary voyage from reptilehood, it developed a double⟳ voice-box, the syrinx...”

“If, say⟳, you think⟳ that a whole lot of related lineages were all independently evolving in parallel from amphibianhood through reptilehood towards mammalhood, you could speak⟳ of passing through the reptile grade on the way to the mammal grade.”

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