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With partible paternity, the woman’s role in producing babies is typically downgraded, unsurprisingly, to “receptacle.”

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There was co-operation in working the fields but no communistic division of the crops, and the individual's hold upon his strips developed rapidly into an inheritable and partible ownership.

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Antonyms: See impartial. partiality, n. bias, favoritism; predilection, inclination, fondness, predisposition, bent. partible, a. separable, divisible, detachable, dissoluble, severable.

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Associated word: cordon. separable, a. divisible, detachable, severable, partible.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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