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Definition of Strene
1. n. Race; offspring; stock; breed; strain.
Definition of Strene
1. an offspring [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strene
Literary usage of Strene
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"(A.-N.) Race; pro- strene, J geny ; descent. ... strene, (1) ». (A.-N.) A New-
year's gift. Dorset. (2) ». A shoot of a tree. Line. (3) ». ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"1953). strene, generation, breed, race, lineage ; ' Dame Nature's strene ', The
Four Elements, in Hazlitt's Dodsley, i. 55; Spenser, FQ v. 9. 32 ; vi. 6.9. ..."
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