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noun

Genesis n.

The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination. "The origin and genesis of poor Sterling's club."

The first book of the Old Testament; so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race.

(Geom.) Same as Generation.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... David was a wonderful spectacle, the most impressive incident the journalist had ever witnessed, did he but know its genesis. The metamorphosis was physical as well as mental. Verity ...

— The Stowaway Girl • Louis Tracy

... The account given of the stages of Creation in the first chapter of Genesis, is in every respect clear and intelligible to the simplest reader, except in the statement of the work of the second day. I suppose that this statement is passed over by careless readers without an endeavor to understand ...

— Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) • John Ruskin

... light, at length came; as in the days of Genesis, it had "divided from the darkness," which had settled upon the horizon and rested there in great heavy masses; and by the clearness of vision now, it was seen night had passed, and that that first vague strange glimmer was ...

— An Iceland Fisherman • Pierre Loti

... characteristics. The old Greeks dreamed, after their fashion, a beautiful poetic dream of a human animal uniting the contradictory beauties of man and woman. The duality of the generative organs seems an old Egyptian tradition, at least we find it in Genesis (i. 27) where the image of the Deity is created male and female, before man was formed out of the dust of the ground (ii. 7). The old tradition found its way to India (if the Hindus did not borrow ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

... preserved its original heat, revolving in space as an obscure Sun, but perhaps still burning. In it we see what our own planet must have been in its primordial epoch, in the pristine times of terrestrial genesis. ...

— Astronomy for Amateurs • Camille Flammarion

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