I don't think Terry had what the phrenologists call "the lump of philoprogenitiveness" at all well developed. From Wordnik.com. [Herland] Reference
These rejected essays and tales were my children, and the embarrassing number of them did not curb my philoprogenitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists] Reference
The world shows that while women have more philoprogenitiveness, men have more amativeness; otherwise the latter would not propose and would nurse the doll and baby. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
With over 30 million users across the country and with over 1 million new ads posted every month, recycler. com is the best place to profit off your cats 'philoprogenitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [ClickPress] Reference
The conformation of his head, however, is not one that is generally accepted as an indication of any marked possession of philoprogenitiveness or its kindred emotions and inclinations. From Wordnik.com. [Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom] Reference
Amativeness; philoprogenitiveness; adhesiveness; combativeness; destructuctiveness; secretiveness; constructiveness; caution; language; individuality; eventuality; causality; order -- average. From Wordnik.com. [A history of the Amistad captives : being a circumstantial account of the capture of the Spanish schooner Amistad, by the Africans on board; their voyage, and capture near Long Island, New York : with biographical sketches of each of the surviving Africans; also, an account of the trials had on their case, before the district and circuit courts of the United States, for the District of Connecticut] Reference
Hudson's friend, Forsyth adds a footnote: "It may interest phrenologists to know that the organs of combativeness, causativeness, and philoprogenitiveness were strongly developed in the cranium"!. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedy of St. Helena] Reference
The Labassecouriens must have a large organ of philoprogenitiveness: at least the indulgence of offspring is carried by them to excessive lengths; the law of most households being the children's will. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
Providence to the category of deliberate acts, will enormously enhance the responsibility of the parent -- and of the State that has failed to adequately discourage the philoprogenitiveness of the parent -- towards the child. From Wordnik.com. [Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought] Reference
Gentlemen are sometimes seized with sudden fits of admiration for the young relatives of ladies whom they honor with their regard, but this counterfeit philoprogenitiveness sits uneasily upon them, and does not deceive anybody a particle. From Wordnik.com. [Little Women] Reference
But Brandon was also fond of children generally; philoprogenitiveness was a marked trait in his character, and would seem to belie the hardness and artifice belonging to that character, were not the same love so frequently noticeable in the harsh and the artificial. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference
She did not positively dislike children, else she would have been only half a woman, or a woman so detestable as to be an anomaly in creation; but her philoprogenitiveness was, to say the least, dormant at present; and her sense of infantile beauty being founded on Sir Joshua's and Murillo's cherubs, she had no great fancy for the ugly little James. From Wordnik.com. [Agatha's Husband A Novel] Reference
It is a little unjust, perhaps, to attribute to the Divinity exclusively this philoprogenitiveness, which the British Philistine, and the poorer class of Irish, may certainly claim to share with him; yet how inspiriting is here the whole strain of thought! and these beautiful words, too, I carry about with me in the East of London, and often read them there. From Wordnik.com. [Culture and Anarchy] Reference
Those which are called the moral organs, such as conscientiousness and benevolence, are amazingly full; amativeness and combativeness are both small; adhesiveness large; the organ of destructiveness (i.e., of determined clearance of intervening obstacles) immense, but less than that of benevolence; and their philoprogenitiveness takes rather the character of compassion and tenderness to things that need aid or protection than of the animal love of offspring. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Race] Reference
Labassecouriens must have a large organ of philoprogenitiveness: at least the indulgence of offspring is carried by them to excessive lengths; the law of most households being the children’s will. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
George’s “philoprogenitiveness,” as phrenologists call it, had been exercised hitherto upon birds, dogs, rabbits, and even the poor old gin-horses which he had driven at the Callerton Pit; but in his boy he now found a much more genial object for the exercise of his affection. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference
How about philoprogenitiveness?. From Wordnik.com. [Those contemptuous atheists... why won't they be kind?] Reference
Time was when men had simple souls, desires as natural as their eyes, a little reasonable philanthropy, a little reasonable philoprogenitiveness, hunger, and a taste for good living, a decent, personal vanity, a healthy, satisfying pugnacity, and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference
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