proletaneous

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Etymology

Latin proletaneus.

Adjective

proletaneous (comparative more proletaneous, superlative most proletaneous)

  1. (rare) Having numerous offspring.
    • 1895, George Brown Burgin, At Tuxter's, page 3:
      When heads of families did their shopping, they could unostentatiously slip into "The Stoat and Hammer," and manage the business of the nation upon those drastic principles so dear to the hearts of the proletarian and proletaneous dwellers in Little Lambton Street.
    • 1902 March 15, “Laws of Fecundity”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, page 669:
      Twinning also was very common in the flock to which this proletaneous ewe belonged, for last year 402 ewes had produced 642 lambs .
    • 2021, Miles Franklin, All That Swagger:
      They were conscious of Australia as once a convict colony and still a retreat for a proletariat over-proletaneous since machinery was making so many men superfluous in industry.
    • 2021, Brent of Bin Bin, Back to Bool Bool:
      What are a few things like that compared with proletaneous human beings?
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