[f. as prec. + -URE.]

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  1.  Theol. The fact of being the only-begotten Son.

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1659.  Pearson, Creed, 278. Unigeniture being the foundation of his singular love. Ibid., 279. As primogeniture consisteth in prelation, so unigeniture in exclusion.

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1691.  E. Taylor, Behmen’s Theos. Philos., 369. The intire Will, and Divine Unigeniture.

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  2.  The fact of being an only child; the practice of having only one child.

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1887.  Edin. Rev., Oct., 304. The Norman peasantry who secure the advantages of primogeniture by unigeniture.

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