Definition of Offsprings

1. Noun. (plural of offspring) ¹

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Definition of Offsprings

1. offspring [n] - See also: offspring

Lexicographical Neighbors of Offsprings

offside traps
offsider
offsiders
offsides
offsite
offski
offskip
offskips
offslip
offsmite
offspeed
offspinner
offspinners
offsplit
offspring
offsprings (current term)
offstage
offstages
offstand
offstanding
offstood
offsuit
offtake
offtakes
offtrack
offwing
offworlder
offworlders
offy
oflag

Literary usage of Offsprings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"Calf," "Spoon River," etc., do not love the offsprings of their brain. They may sympathize with, but they do not like their characters. Mr. Aikman, we feel, ..."

2. The Conquest of Canada by George Warburton (1850)
"... no doubt that they entertained a suspicion of its existence ;* the romance of Plato—the prophecy of Seneca, were but the offsprings of this vague idea. ..."

3. Illinois Teacher: Devoted to Education, Science and Free Schools by Illinois Education Association (1865)
"Now the 2 offsprings born in 1862 will each give birth in 1865, making for this year 6 births. So also the 3 offsprings of 1863 will each give birth in 1866 ..."

4. Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful by Emanuel Swedenborg (1871)
"Spiritual offsprings, which are produced from the marriages of the angels, are such things as are of wisdom from the father, and of love from the mother, ..."

5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... immortal fair record fho deign'd to revel with a mortal lord, n whose illustrious offsprings all might trace 'he glorious likeness of a godlike race. ..."

6. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1890)
"If a single female herring should reach the mature age of ten years, her offsprings during that time would not alone increase beyond any computation, ..."

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