Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A progenitor.
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Examples
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I can come to no other conclusion than that by the first stock-father Chaucer means our Lord Jesus.
England's Antiphon MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 1868
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He it is who, in an often-quoted passage, styles our Lord “The first true gentleman that ever breathed;” just as Chaucer, in a poem I have given, calls him “The first stock-father of gentleness.”
England's Antiphon MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 1868
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They had fled from the infant roar of the 'first stock-father' of steam-engines, whose cradle was that feudal keep, eight centuries old.
St. George and St. Michael Volume I George MacDonald 1864
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They had fled from the infant roar of the 'first stock-father' of steam-engines, whose cradle was that feudal keep, eight centuries old.
St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864
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The first stock-father of gentleness ” ancestor of the race
England's Antiphon MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 1868
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