Crossword-Solution: PROGENY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Progeny | n. | Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PROGENY | anagram | PYROGEN |
We have 18 clues for the answer “PROGENY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Sons and daughters. | 2 answers |
| posterity | 6 answers |
| descendants | 13 answers |
| parentage | 15 answers |
| Sc-ion | 16 answers |
| Descendant | 23 answers |
| Genealogy | 28 answers |
| Pedigree | 28 answers |
| children | 34 answers |
| Off-spring | 35 answers |
| clan | 38 answers |
| Lineage | 40 answers |
| Brood | 41 answers |
| Background | 43 answers |
| From | 43 answers |
| Genus | 44 answers |
| species | 54 answers |
| Issue | 85 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROGENY (5)
Perhaps the most infamous of the social lists was the eccentric bandykin distribution; its latter-day progeny, lectroids and tanstaafl, still include a number of the oddest and most interesting people in hackerdom.
Then, although we are admirers of Homer, we do not admire the lying dream which Zeus sends to Agamemnon; neither will we praise the verses of Aeschylus in which Thetis says that Apollo at her nuptials Was celebrating in song her fair progeny whose days were to be long, and to know no sickness.
Eldridge, as he stepped into the chaise to go for his grand-daughter, “what pleasure expands the heart of an old man when he beholds the progeny of a beloved child growing up in every virtue that adorned the minds of her parents.
Vivian blushed a little now, when she met Bernard’s eyes; and to remind herself that she was after all a virtuous woman, talked as much as possible about superior and harmless things--the beauty of the autumn weather, the pleasure of seeing French papas walking about on Sunday with their progeny in their hands, the peculiarities of the pulpit-oratory of the country as exemplified in the discourse of a Protestant pasteur whom she had been to hear in the morning.
Now that his nephew and niece had come before him, he perceived that they were the fruit of influences and circumstances very different from those under which his own familiar progeny had reached a vaguely-qualified maturity.
Quotes with PROGENY (3)
Little world, full of scars and gashes, ripened with another's pain, Your flowers feed on carrion--so do your birds; Men feed on each other because you taught them life was cheap, Flowing from your endless womb without pain or understanding. No midwife caresses your flesh or bathes clean your progeny, Life spurts from you, little world, and you regard it with disdain. Only bruised men sense your cruelty, men whose life has lost its meaning.
The imported discovery, that human nature is too good to be made better by discipline, that children are enticed from the right way by religious instruction, and driven from it by the rod, and kept in thraldom by the conspiracy of priests and legislators, has united not a few in the noble experiment of emancipating the world by the help of an irreligious, ungoverned progeny. The indolent have rejoiced in the discovery that our fathers were fools and bigots, and have cheerfull…
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1992–2013).