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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].
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. [Pg 94] The Progenitor of the Real Parisian Café
    — from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers
  8. 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
  9. [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

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