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PROCREATION
Begetting children. It is a formal term for generation and stresses the role of marital intercourse with the intention of producing offspring. (Etym. Latin procreare, to beget.)
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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