philoprogenitiveness

English

Etymology

philoprogenitive +‎ -ness

Noun

philoprogenitiveness (uncountable)

1. The state or condition of being philoprogenitive.
   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     He was walking upon the terrace finally upon the eventful day when, amidst an immense jangling of bells from Clavering Church, where the flag was flying, an open carriage and one of those travelling chariots or family arks, which only English philoprogenitiveness could invent, drove rapidly with foaming horses through the Park gates, and up to the steps of the Hall.

   • 1973, Lyall Watson, Supernature, page vi. 203:

     Life-size, bald, china heads were produced as guides, suitably inscribed with a patchwork labeled "sublimity," "ideality," "benevolence," and that splendid Victorian substitute for sex - "philoprogenitiveness."