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▪ I. † inˌgeneraˈbility1 Obs. [f. ingenerable1: see -ity; cf. It. ingenerabilità (Florio), F. ingénérabilité (Bayle, in Littré).] The quality of being ingenerable; incapacity of being generated.
1598Florio, Ingenerabilita, vnbegetting, ingenerabilitie. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §34. 43 Firmly conclusive..for Substantial Incorporeal Souls, and their Ingenerability out of the Matter. a1691Boyle Hist. Air vi. (1692) 18 The Controversy about the Ingenerability (as they speak) or the mutual Transmutation of the Bodies that are called Elementary. ▪ II. inˌgeneraˈbility2 rare—0. [f. ingenerable2 + -ity.] Capability of being generated. In mod. Dicts. |