Crossword-Solution: PROGENITOR 10 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Progenitor n. An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather.

We have 16 clues for the answer “PROGENITOR”

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Originator, as of a musical style 1 answer
Founder of a tradition, tribe, or trend 3 answers
procreator 6 answers
begetter 10 answers
Forefather. 14 answers
ascendant 14 answers
Forebear 15 answers
Dad 16 answers
originator 20 answers
Sire 20 answers
Creator 26 answers
Archetype 32 answers
ancestor 33 answers
Parent 34 answers
Manufacturer 45 answers
maker 62 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 PROGENITOR (5)

Because wee freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall: And som are fall’n, to disobedience fall’n, And so from Heav’n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe! To whom our great Progenitor.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
For a very long period after the witchcraft delusion, however, the Maules had continued to inhabit the town where their progenitor had suffered so unjust a death.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
Could it be possible that even now a remnant of that lost race inhabited the ruined grandeur that had once been their progenitor? Again he became conscious of a stealthy movement within the great temple before him.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The sacred knife was gone! Handed down through countless ages it had come to her as a heritage and an insignia of her religious office and regal authority from some long-dead progenitor of lost and forgotten Atlantis.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995
Frantic work of art on the wall--pious motto, done on the premises, sometimes in colored yarns, sometimes in faded grasses: progenitor of the 'God Bless Our Home' of modern commerce.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006

Quotes with PROGENITOR (3)

People are always changing themselves and their world, dear. Very few of the changes are new. We rather confuse change and newness, I think. What is truly new never changes.""You speak in riddles, aged progenitor.""The world worships a certain kind of newness. People are always talking about a new car, or a new drink or p-p-play or house, but these things are not truly new, are they? They begin to get old the minute you acquire them. New is not in things. New is within us. Th…
Tony Hendra Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.
Edmund Crispin
So one can lose a good ideaby not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other asidesit knows nothing of, would not recognize itself in, yet when the negotiationsare terminated, speaks in the acts of that progenitor, and doesrecognize itself, is grateful for not having done so earlier.
John Ashbery Flow Chart
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1982–2018).