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Definition of Generations
1. generation [n] - See also: generation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Generations
Literary usage of Generations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Theological Review by Harvard Divinity School (1921)
"FOURTEEN generations: 490 YEARS AN EXPLANATION OF THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS "So the
whole number of generations from Abraham to David is fourteen generations, ..."
2. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1880)
"Alternations of generations. Alternation of generations is of common occurrence
amongst the Hydrozoa, and something analogous to it has been found to take ..."
3. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1877)
"•Ipomoea purpurea, comparison of the height and fertility of the crossed and
self-fertilised plants during ten successive generations —Greater ..."
4. The House Fly, Disease Carrier: An Account of Its Dangerous Activities and by Leland Ossian Howard (1911)
"Number of generations Taking the minimum duration of a generation in Washington
so far as observed (and this must not be taken as the scientific minimum, ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1893)
"Miss Le Blanc had in her possession the letters and other documents of three
generations. These papers, yellow with age and with the writing so faded as to ..."
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