Complete Definition of "geniture"

English
Etymology
From Old (and modern) French géniture, or its source Latin genitura, from the base of gignere �beget�.

Pronunciation
IPA|/�ʤ�nɪʧ�/ (UK)

Noun
en-noun

  1. birth|Birth, begetting.

#*1759: on Lady-Day, which was on the 25th of the same month in which I date my geniture,�my father set out upon his journey to London with my eldest brother Bobby, to fix him at Westminster school � Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 10)

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