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genesis
Part of speech: NounThe act or process of producing or originating beginning: Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament; so called because it tells of the creation of the world.
Usage examples "genesis":- Here Marsilio Ficino's Platonic Academy used to meet, in the loggia and in the little temple which one gains from the cloisters, and here Pico della Mirandola composed his curious gloss on Genesis. - "A Wanderer in Florence", E. V. Lucas.
- From this, also, it may be explained how the prophet may apply to the part the promises of Genesis, which there refer to the whole. - "Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1", Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg.
- She does not accept the first chapter of Genesis as a wonderful revelation of the early stages of human investigation into the realms of the unknown, but still keeps to her old formula of a revelation of the deity as to the origin of man, and she does not see that by this attitude she is lessening every day her capacity for teaching truth. - "Folklore as an Historical Science", George Laurence Gomme.