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English
Etymology
From Latin novercalis, from noverca (“a stepmother”).
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Adjective
novercal (not comparable)
- (dated) Of or pertaining to a stepmother.
1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. , London: W Innys, , →OCLC:when almost the whole tribe of birds do thus, by incubation, produce their young , it is a wonderful deviation , that some few families only ſhould do it in a more novercal way
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Robert Browning to this entry?)
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