Literary notes about Progenitor (AI summary)
In literature, the term progenitor is often employed as a powerful symbol of origin and foundation. It can indicate a literal forefather or founding figure—a person whose legacy spreads through subsequent generations—as seen in genealogical and historical contexts [1, 2, 3]. Equally, writers harness the word to evoke the primordial source of ideas, species, or even artistic movements, thereby linking the present with its creative or mythological roots [4, 5, 6]. Whether referring to a revered ancestor in religious epics or to a formative influence in natural evolution and cultural identity, progenitor serves as a versatile metaphor for that original, defining source [7, 8, 9].
- John Whistler was a brave and efficient soldier and the progenitor of a distinguished posterity.
— from The Story of Old Fort Dearborn by J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour) Currey - The progenitor of this family in America was Dr. John Nicoll, who emigrated to this country in 1711 and settled in New York.
— from The History of Orange County New York - In this town, in 1657, settled Ebenezer Webster, the direct progenitor of the Great Expounder, and here the family remained for several generations.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 by Various - Manu no longer appears as the progenitor of mankind, but as a creator who produces all beings and worlds anew by means of his ascetic power.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell - For the embryo is the animal in its less modified state; and in so far it reveals the structure of its progenitor.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - A CHARACTER PROPER TO AN ALLIED SPECIES, OR REVERTS TO SOME OF THE CHARACTERS OF AN EARLY PROGENITOR.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - [Pg 94] The Progenitor of the Real Parisian Café
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - The progenitor of the extensive race of the Kurus, he was of the splendour of the Sun.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - [942] Jupiter omnipotens, Regum Rex ipse, Deûmque Progenitor, Genetrixque Deûm ; Deus unus et idem.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 1 (of 6) by Jacob Bryant