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procreant

procreant adjective: that procreates.

Adjective

procreant (comparative more procreant, superlative most procreant)

  1. That procreates.
  2. Of or pertaining to procreation; procreative.
    • His pendent bed and procreant cradlec. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • It is the procreant and conservant cause, but no material of our Sanctification .1990, David D. Hall, The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638: A Documentary History, page 102

Noun

procreant (plural procreants)

  1. One who, or that which, procreates.
    • Leave procreants alone, and ſhut the dore, / Coffe, or cry hem, if any body come, […]c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act...

Forms of procreant

Adjective
comparativemore procreant
superlativemost procreant
Noun
pluralprocreants

Origin of procreant

From Latin procreans.

Words formed from procreant

Questions about procreant

What does procreant mean?
Procreant means that procreates.
What part of speech is procreant?
Procreant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near procreant in the dictionary

  1. procrasturbate
  2. procrasturbated
  3. procrasturbates
  4. procrasturbating
  5. procrasturbation
  6. procreant
  7. procreants
  8. procreate
  9. procreated
  10. procreater
  11. procreaters

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