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1764 J. Murray Hist. Relig. (ed. 2) IV. 220 So that there is no need in the church of Christ of a magisterial compulsion in this case, as there is among others, who being constituted in a fleshly and generational way, are necessitated to make use of a carnal sword.

1856 Ladies' Repository Apr. 246 And we see that an anxious respect was paid to this number, when the generational basis in some measure failed.

1894 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 116 At this stage in the development of the generational system, the parent gives but the beginnings of life.

1907 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 8 1 (note) Care has been taken to insure that, when one of the given generational relations of a group is sⁿ = 1, the operator s shall be or the order of n.

1997 C. Pinto-Correia Ovary of Eve viii. 293 In sketching the background of preformation, we note that generational undertones infiltrate Bacon's postulates.

1922 Jrnl. Farm Econ. 4 43 Landowners..must gauge their entrepreneural activities by decennial or generational considerations.

1947 R. Wellek & E. A. Warren Theory of Lit. xviii. 259 The largest reputations survive generational tastes: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare..and Tennyson have a permanent..position.

1956 W. Lewis Red Priest xxvi. 217 You are younger than I am, and probably are in a different generational stream.

1964 Punch 9 Sept. 382/2 The generational gap is even more extended at student level.

1971 Guardian 9 Feb. 8/7 The generational outbursts against humanity.

1991 German Hist. 9 337 There did therefore appear to have been a generational transition in Jewish leadership.

2007 I. McDonald Brasyl 53 Filthy Pigs..opened generational rifts children against parents; ruined relationships; wrecked marriages; and provoked at least one shooting.