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Generation

noun

All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age. Synonyms: coevals, contemporaries.

Group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent.

The normal time between successive generations.

A stage of technological development or innovation.

A coming into being. Synonym: genesis.

The production of heat or electricity.

The act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production. Synonyms: multiplication, propagation.

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... they assumed a form and a character which made them seem like simplicity itself by the side of the former systems; and which, although somewhat complicated by the additions and alterations of a later and more superstitious, generation, have still maintained the noble and honourable characteristics imparted to them by the great reformer and ...

— Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster • F. Marion Crawford

... said the dignitary. "The treasures accumulated in the labyrinth do not decrease; they increase from generation to generation, so ...

— The Pharaoh and the Priest - An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt • Boleslaw Prus

... York in April 1829. "Equal division" was advocated by a self-taught mechanic by the name of Thomas Skidmore, who elaborated his ideas in a book bearing the self-revealing title of "The Rights of Man to Property: being a Proposition to make it Equal among the Adults of the Present Generation: and to Provide for its Equal Transmission to Every Individual of Each Succeeding Generation, on Arriving at the Age of Maturity," published in 1829. This Skidmorian program was better known as "agrarianism," probably from the title of a book ...

— A History of Trade Unionism in the United States • Selig Perlman

... Editors. Besides, many of the profession and I know a little something of each other, and you don't think I am such a simpleton as to lose their good opinion by saying what the better heads among them would condemn as unfair and untrue? Now mark how the great plague came on the generation of drugging doctors, and in ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859 • Various

... not more, successful in awakening ethical and religious emotion than priests and bishops. Nay, women like Catherine of Siena could hold Europe, its kings, and popes spell-bound, when "mere men" were powerless. Has any one in this generation read more powerful appeals to the religious sense than the fragments of the sermons of Dinah Morris in Adam Bede, more thrilling descriptions of an unavailing remorse than in the sermon on the text, "Keep innocency, and take heed to the ...

— Morality as a Religion - An exposition of some first principles • W. R. Washington Sullivan

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