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postgeniture

postgeniture noun: the fact of being born after someone else of the same bloodline.

Noun

postgeniture (uncountable)

  1. The fact of being born after someone else of the same bloodline.
    • A person of high spirit and honour, naturally a King, though fatally prevented by the harmlesse chance of post-geniture […]1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus

Origin of postgeniture

From post- + geniture.

Questions about postgeniture

What does postgeniture mean?
Postgeniture means the fact of being born after someone else of the same bloodline.
What part of speech is postgeniture?
Postgeniture is a noun.

Words near postgeniture in the dictionary

  1. postgenderist
  2. postgenderists
  3. postgenders
  4. postgenital
  5. postgenitally
  6. postgeniture
  7. postgenocide
  8. postgenomic
  9. postgenomics
  10. postgeographic
  11. postgermarial

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