offspring

[Off·spring`]

Origin; lineage; family.

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The act of production; generation.

Noun
any immature animal

Noun
something that comes into existence as a result; "industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the French Revolution''s various socialistic offspring"; "this skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"

Noun
the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"


n.sing. & pl.
The act of production; generation.

n.sing. & pl.
That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.

n.sing. & pl.
Origin; lineage; family.


Offspring

Off"spring` , n.sing. & pl. [Off + spring.] 1. The act of production; generation. [Obs.] 2. That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.
To the gods alone Our future offspring and our wives are known.
3. Origin; lineage; family. [Obs.] Fairfax.

The act of production; generation.

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Usage Examples

The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

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