What is "procreative"

Usage examples of "procreative".

Macbeth is quicker than her husband to recognize that murdering Duncan will entail murdering the procreative order.

Lady Macbeth as a procreative creature, then we lose the moral import of that disappearance.

The natural order is only temporarily salvaged when Hal conquers France in deference to his forefathers, thereby acquiring a new world of vegetative and procreative fertility.

Was bearing a child outside marriage, though procreative, more sinful than intercourse only for pleasure within marriage?

He knew now that Priestess Poogli was indeed a throwback, because stirring inside that asteroidic hulk were procreative yearnings that at odd moments overpowered even the insatiable greed.

After four childless years of marriage Ruth and Mel have become procreative partisans in the clash between will and womb.

His procreative competency is limited to an average of a hundred exercises per year for fifty years, hers is good for three thousand a year for that whole time -- and as many years longer as she may live.

Or engage in complicated sexual behavior without procreative intent, which, if it were not for the pleasure, would be pointless and insane.

For what was life except the procreative principle, and what was death save its extinction?

The Venus was that Venus who ruled the dead, not the living, that Venus who presided over the extinction of the procreative force.

No doubt why it was part of the Human Equation, rather than required solely for procreative purposes.

Moslem seraglios place the procreative burden on a few underproductive fathers.

No doubt why it was part of the human equation, rather than required solely for procreative purposes.