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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fecundate.

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Examples

  • The imaginary river that fecundates the flood-plain in the brain-pan belongs to the simulacral Troy, parvam Troiam, that Andromache builds in the Aeneid, in captivity, after her city was destroyed.

    An Excess of Reality : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • It is only really amongst the Greeks where rationalism in its purest form finds a foothold and later fecundates Western thought.

    "Let them learn Latin" 2006

  • It is only really amongst the Greeks where rationalism in its purest form finds a foothold and later fecundates Western thought.

    "Let them learn Latin" 2006

  • Ahmed; divides them in two, and fecundates its gardens planted with orange-trees, pomegranates, and fig-trees.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • The disturbance in Mr. Symons is almost, but not quite, to the point of creating; the reading sometimes fecundates his emotions to produce something new which is not criticism, but is not the expulsion, the ejection, the birth of creativeness. 5

    The Perfect Critic Thomas Stearns 1920

  • The male, which only lives for a few hours, and resembles a moth, nevertheless recognises his mate in spite of these adverse circumstances, and fecundates her.

    Unconscious Memory Samuel Butler 1868

  • a necessity of true life by which the individual renews his vital force in the vital force of humanity; it is a Holy Communion with generations dead and living, by which he fecundates all his faculties.

    Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910

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