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genesis
/ˈd͡ʒɛ.nə.səs/
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What does genesis mean?
noun
- The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.
proper noun
- The first book in the Hebrew Bible.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek of American usage since the 1980s.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈd͡ʒɛ.nə.səs/
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I wondered why the black man took such pains to discourse thus at length to enemies upon the genesis of life Barsoomian.
Posters announcing THE RETURN OF TARZAN showed a kind of third chapter of Genesis scene with an Eve in a sports suit.
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The various elements we have enumerated as entering into the genesis of the majority of revolutions will not suffice to classify them.
We were fortunate enough to be able to analyze out much of the genesis of this girl's career as a pathological liar.
Meanwhile those theologians who felt that denunciation of science as "godless" could accomplish little, laboured upon schemes for reconciling geology with Genesis.