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Complete Definition of "traducianism"

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Etymology
From traducian.

Noun
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  1. The doctrine that the soul or spirit is inherited from one or both parents.

#*2003: Augustine's insistence on its spiritual nature made it hard for him to uphold, along with Tertullian, the doctrine of physical traducianism. � Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p.37n)

Related terms
traducian

See also
traduce

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