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UK
/pɹˌɒkɹiːˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /ˈpɹoʊkɹiˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹoʊkɹiˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
How To Use procreation In A Sentence
- In our culture at this time, procreation is not understood to be an essential part of what it is to be married.
- She borrows it from the animal world and evokes or invokes it on the subject of procreation.
- Specifically, we move the creative energies found in the sacral chakra, which is located in the lower abdomen and related to procreation and sexuality, up into the third eye chakra, the spiritual center located between the two eyebrows. Stacey Lawson: Principle #5: The Ecstasy Of Asking
- Mimicry "may have adaptive value, " the Dutch team concluded, "enhancing the chances of successful procreation of those members of a species who adopt this specific behavior.
- For example, Artificial Reproductive Technology ART was reckoned to be bad because of "medicalisation of procreation", "commodification", and "commercialisation of human beings". Archive 2010-02-01
- According to Jewish and Christian religious traditions, sex and procreation were meant to be inseparable.
- A common argument against gay marriage is that marriage is for procreation and gay couples cannot procreate.
- Why does not the cheated publican beg leave to check the gulosity of his defrauder with a repetatur haustus, and the pummelled plaintiff neutralise the malice of his adversary, by requesting to have the rest of the beating in presence of the court, -- if it is not that such conduct would run counter to all the conclusions of experience, and be the procreation of the mischief it affected to destroy? Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
- Bring a bunch of broad spectrum antibiotics when you set off to satisfy your need for procreation and extratemporal lust; -) Ask MetaFilter
- Overpopulation has led to harshly enforced limitations on procreation.