geniture

Example Sentences

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It was thought that this was impossible in our republic because we had no law of primogeniture, but we have another kind of geniture that is very effective.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

God Himself is so near thee that the geniture of the Holy Trinity is continually being wrought in thy heart. 

From Jacob Behmen an appreciation by Whyte, Alexander

Moreover it eliquateth the pinguie substance of the kidneys, and absumeth the geniture.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert

Pliny saith, Shell fish is the wonderful geniture of a pearl congealed into a diaphanous stone, and the shell is called the mother of pearl.

From The Parables of Our Lord by Arnot, William

For Cancer suits one as well as the other, and therefore I put nothing upon him, that I might not press my own geniture.

From The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter by Burnaby, William