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Definition of Offsprings
1. offspring [n] - See also: offspring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Offsprings
Literary usage of Offsprings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"Calf," "Spoon River," etc., do not love the offsprings of their brain. They may
sympathize with, but they do not like their characters. Mr. Aikman, we feel, ..."
2. The Conquest of Canada by George Warburton (1850)
"... no doubt that they entertained a suspicion of its existence ;* the romance of
Plato—the prophecy of Seneca, were but the offsprings of this vague idea. ..."
3. Illinois Teacher: Devoted to Education, Science and Free Schools by Illinois Education Association (1865)
"Now the 2 offsprings born in 1862 will each give birth in 1865, making for this
year 6 births. So also the 3 offsprings of 1863 will each give birth in 1866 ..."
4. Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful by Emanuel Swedenborg (1871)
"Spiritual offsprings, which are produced from the marriages of the angels, are
such things as are of wisdom from the father, and of love from the mother, ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... immortal fair record fho deign'd to revel with a mortal lord, n whose illustrious
offsprings all might trace 'he glorious likeness of a godlike race. ..."
6. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1890)
"If a single female herring should reach the mature age of ten years, her offsprings
during that time would not alone increase beyond any computation, ..."
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