[f. as prec. + -URE.]
1. Theol. The fact of being the only-begotten Son.
1659. Pearson, Creed, 278. Unigeniture being the foundation of his singular love. Ibid., 279. As primogeniture consisteth in prelation, so unigeniture in exclusion.
1691. E. Taylor, Behmens Theos. Philos., 369. The intire Will, and Divine Unigeniture.
2. The fact of being an only child; the practice of having only one child.
1887. Edin. Rev., Oct., 304. The Norman peasantry who secure the advantages of primogeniture by unigeniture.