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‘Passed off as the 15th child of his philoprogenitive grandparents, he seems never to have known the true story of his birth.’
‘By firmly anchoring each woman's fate in Henry's failure to be philoprogenitive - most crucially in not producing male heirs - Fraser makes a major contribution to feminist scholarship.’
1.1Showing love towards one's offspring.
‘Now perhaps some people of philoprogenitive proclivities may be led to imagine that a tender gush of paternity is to follow just here.’