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Geniture

Geniture \Gen"i*ture\, n. [L. genitura: cf. F. g['e]niture.] Generation; procreation; birth.
--Dryden.

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geniture

n. birth, begetting.

Usage examples of "geniture".

It appeareth by Cardan (who writeth it upon the report of the bishop of Lexovia), in the geniture of King Edward the Sixth, how Henry the Eighth, executing his laws very severely against such idle persons, I mean great thieves, petty thieves, and rogues, did hang up threescore and twelve thousand of them in his time.