postgeniture
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
postgeniture (uncountable)
- The fact of being born after someone else of the same bloodline.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
- A person of high spirit and honour, naturally a King, though fatally prevented by the harmlesse chance of post-geniture […]