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English
Etymology
From Latin procreans.
Adjective
procreant (comparative more procreant, superlative most procreant)
- That procreates.
- Of or pertaining to procreation; procreative.
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :His pendent bed and procreant cradle
1990, David D. Hall, The Antinomian Controversy, 1636-1638: A Documentary History, page 102:It is the procreant and conservant cause, but no material of our Sanctification .
Noun
procreant (plural procreants)
- One who, or that which, procreates.
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. (First Quarto), London: N O for Thomas Walkley, , published 1622, →OCLC, , page 70:Leave procreants alone, and ſhut the dore, / Coffe, or cry hem, if any body come, […]
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Verb
procreant
- gerund of procrear
Latin
Verb
prōcreant
- third-person plural present active indicative of prōcreō