procreant

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It only becomes a thing of delight when Time is being borne to his tomb in eternity, for then the spirit of the Earth, man’s procreant mind, fills it with his own joyousness.

From Ideas of Good and Evil by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

Indeed, and were there not For each its procreant atoms, could things have Each its unalterable mother old?

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

Cf. 'no jutty, frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.'

From Quentin Durward by Scott, Walter, Sir

The male incubates and rears the young; and the procreant habits seem altogether like those of Rhea americana.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

And then most birds will sooner or later betray the presence of their nests, but the Kentucky warblers seldom do so, knowing too well how to keep their procreant secrets.

From Our Bird Comrades by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)