“philoprogenitiveness”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

philoprogenitiveness

释义

ˌphiloproˈgenitiveness Phrenol.
[f. as prec. + -ness: see quot. 1815.]
Love of offspring; the instinct or faculty of love for one's children, or for children (and animals) in general. Its organ is located by phrenologists just above the middle of the cerebellum.
1815J. G. Spurzheim Physiogn. Syst. Pref. 10, I am aware that the name..ought to indicate love of producing offspring. As however progeny means offspring; philoprogeny, love of offspring, and Philoprogenitiveness, the faculty of producing love of offspring, I have adopted that term.1826Edin. Rev. XLIV. 269 Why therefore should we not have a separate principle of Philoprogenitiveness?1856Olmsted Slave States 425 The nurse was a kind-looking old negro woman, with, no doubt, philoprogenitiveness well developed.

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