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seminality

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The quality or state of being seminal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • 1661, George Rust, A Letter of Resolution Concerning Origen, London: C.L., (Facsimile Text Society, Columbia University Press, 1933), p. 84, And unless [God] purposely put a stop to the course of Nature, the great principle of vegetative life will necessarily shape the matter, when duely modified, into all kinde of trees, plants, herbs and flowers: for the inferiour spirit of the world acts not by choice, but fatally; and being essentially stored with an universal Seminality, will not fail to bring her treasure into view when invited by congruous and sequacious dispositions of matter.

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History

Etymology

From seminal + -ity.