progeny

UK /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒəni/ US /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒəni/
noun 3

Definitions

noun

1

Offspring or descendants considered as a group.

I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.

I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny.

2

Descent, lineage, ancestry.

Beſides, all French and France exclaimes on thee, / Doubting thy Birth and lawfull Progenie. / Who ioyn’ſt thou with, but with a Lordly Nation, / That will not truſt thee, but for profits ſake ?

3

A result of a creative effort.

His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.

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