generative act

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generative act (plural generative acts)

  1. Sexual intercourse between a man and a woman.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 160:
      [T]he primitive concept of the generative act was one of awe and worship, accorded to a force which was incomprehensible and baffling.