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breedership

noun

Etymology

From breeder + -ship.

  1. derived from *bʰreh₁-✻ — “warm”
  2. inherited from *brōdijaną✻ — “to brood”
  3. inherited from brēdan
  4. inherited from breden
  5. suffixed as breeder — “breed + er”
  6. suffixed as breedership — “breeder + ship”

Definitions

  1. The role or status of being a breeder.

    • […] it will be far from a real breeding flock, and its productions will never bear the stamp of uniformity, which is one of the distinguishing marks of breedership.
    • […] no one who engages in heterosexual practices can epistemically rule out the chance of becoming a parent. If this is accepted without protest, then universal breedership justifies the extension of parental obligations to all.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for breedership. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA