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offspring

[ awf-spring, of- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural off·spring, off·springs.

children or young of a particular parent or progenitor.
a child or animal in relation to the parent or parents.
a descendant.
descendants collectively.
the product, result, or effect of something:
the offspring of an inventive mind.

offspring

/ ˈɒfˌsprɪŋ /

First recorded before 950; Middle English; Old English ofspring; off, of ¹, spring (in the sense “to descend from”)

Given his philandering reputation, it is perhaps unsurprising that there are several people who claim to be his offspring.

Mary Soames is an exception to the rule that gilded offspring endure life rather than enjoy it.

Al Qaeda and its Iraqi offspring ISIS compete for recruits and territory.

If you need a show for millennials, why not hand it over to Ronan Farrow, the offspring of celebrity parents.

But included on the list is “responsibility with regard to offspring.”

The offspring of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches, and make a noise as unclean roots upon the top of a rock.

By a voice he saith: Hear me, ye divine offspring, and bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters.

Here the proud state that claimed him as her own offspring, met him with the injustice of a malignant step-dame.

If the parent, by Covenanting, ought to vow to observe a system of moral duties, ought not the offspring?

It is the offspring of a sickly taste, a deceitful heart, and a sure proof of low breeding.

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