adjective

• 1 formal Having many offspring.

  ‘a philoprogenitive ill-paid artisan’

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  • ‘Passed off as the 15th child of his philoprogenitive grandparents, he seems never to have known the true story of his birth.’
  • ‘By firmly anchoring each woman's fate in Henry's failure to be philoprogenitive - most crucially in not producing male heirs - Fraser makes a major contribution to feminist scholarship.’

  1. 1.1Showing love towards one's offspring.
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     • ‘Now perhaps some people of philoprogenitive proclivities may be led to imagine that a tender gush of paternity is to follow just here.’