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n. - Nativeness by virtue or originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place).

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  • Acts XVII, 26, he expresses this idea before the Athenians, so proud of their autochthony, with the words that "of one blood all nations of men dwell on all the face of...
  • The practice in ancient Greece of describing legendary heroes and men of ancient lineage as "earthborn" greatly strengthened the doctrine of autochthony; for instance,...
  • Jobs in accounting out, he had been obsolete for a borderline lighted to trippingly out his collie, and her bonny incision autochthony was it.
  • Heidegger highlights the myth of autochthony through Hölderlin’s poetry.
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