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- noun Plural form of
progenitor .
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The drama of the fall of the progenitors is the background to a passage, in The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), in which Mitya Karamazov, one of the protagonists of the novel, says: The frightening thing is that beauty is not only terrible, but it is also a mystery.
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In quick time, robust, sometimes ear-splitting chirping led to gospel-trained Aretha Franklin and the magnificent Patti LaBelle and to Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, who could be called the progenitors of today's melisma-infused warbling.
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“Their progenitors were an international group of scientists; they had labs in Haiti and Pakistan during the nineteen-sixties and seventies—”
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The origin of this particular species of the porcine tribe is unknown, but there is a tradition to the effect that their progenitors were a part of the drove that came to the coast of Florida with De Soto when he started on the march which ended with the discovery of the
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The gods who are called the progenitors of Marduk are represented as rejoicing upon seeing Marduk equipped for the fray.
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The New England Patriots, the so-called progenitors of this "team first" philosophy, only found SB success when they could video-tape their opponents practices.
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The New England Patriots, the so-called progenitors of this "team first" philosophy, only found SB success when they could video-tape their opponents practices.
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The New England Patriots, the so-called progenitors of this "team first" philosophy, only found SB success when they could video-tape their opponents practices.
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The New England Patriots, the so-called progenitors of this "team first" philosophy, only found SB success when they could video-tape their opponents practices.
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The New England Patriots, the so-called progenitors of this "team first" philosophy, only found SB success when they could video-tape their opponents practices.
gtss commented on the word progenitors
"...progenitors of all the evil on Third Earth..."
--Mumm-Ra (MUMM-RA LIVES - PART IV)
June 26, 2008