ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Ungenerate

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Ungenerate is an adjective meaning Not created; ungenerated.

Meaning

Not created; ungenerated.

More Meanings

  1. To undo the act of generation; to uncreate.

Example Sentences

To my mind that theory will be best which is most liberal in defending the right to life of ungenerate unicorns; I think that, as not everything we speak of is in the real world, so not everything we fail to find there is entirely out of it.
If the Son were uncreated, Arius reasoned, if he were always existing, then the Son would also be ungenerate and unbegotten, just as the Father is; the result would be a Son who is a Father and a second first principle beside the Father, and this is absurd.
Sensible people, says Madam Gamidge, are astonished to see how people with a title forgets themselves, as if the man that got the money, that bought the title, was not a better man than they that have it for nothing; but everthing here in this world ungenerates.
The ninety-nine savages would reply—"we don't want what you have created, this increased fertility, &c., &c., &c.; if you choose, reduce the land of your farm to its original state; ungenerate the fruits and grasses; but have it we must ; you are an usurper; you want to establish private property.”

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Related dictionary entries include ungenerated, nongenerated, uncreated, ungenerable, undegenerated, ingenerable.

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