Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a numerous offspring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Having a numerous offspring.
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- adjective rare Having
numerous offspring .
Etymologies
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Latin proletaneus.
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Examples
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He shows beyond question that none of the proletaneous divisions of the Africans can equal in manhood instincts those upon their native soil, for the reason, as we have said a thousand times, their environments tend to dwarf them and in every instance they will be successful.
Africa and African Methodism. Alfred Lee Ridgel 1896
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