单词 | philogenitiveness |
释义 | philogenitivenessn. Now historical and rare. The state or condition of being philogenitive; tendency to procreate; = philoprogenitiveness n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [noun] willOE loveOE likinga1200 jollityc1330 desirec1340 fire1340 naturec1387 ragea1425 pride1486 lovered1487 Venus1513 courage1541 passion1648 lusting1760 philogenitiveness1815 body-urge1930 hots1940 hard-on1949 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence lustinessc1400 lustihead1579 philogenitiveness1815 1815 J. G. Spurzheim Physiognom. Syst. Pref. 9 I am aware that the name [sc. philoprogenitiveness] is long, but I could not say philogenitiveness, because the name ought to indicate love of producing offspring. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XII xxii. 16 I say, methinks that ‘Philo-genitiveness’ Might meet from men a little more forgiveness. 1831 Times 26 Jan. 3/5 The parish officers..complained of such a development in the organ of philogenitiveness in the pericrania of both officers and men, that they were perpetually burdening the parochial rates by a left-handed mode of adding to the general stock of population. (Loud laughter.) 1988 B. Hilton Age of Atonement ix. 351 Many politicians followed Trevelyan in seeing the hand of God as directed against the Irish themselves for their philogenitiveness and sloth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1815 |
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