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seminal principle

noun

, Philosophy.
  1. a potential, latent within an imperfect object, for attaining full development.

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Without her aid, this seminal principle of mischief, this root of Upas, could not have been planted.

This was the first small seminal principle of the immense territorial acquisitions we have since made in India.

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