Generation

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Definitions include: a definite period of time, with a special reference to the average length of man's life; an indefinite period of time, of time past; the men who lived in the same period of time who were contemporaries; a race or class of men; and a dwelling place or habitation

(Latin Vulgate, generatio).

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This word, of very varied meaning, corresponds to the two Hebrew terms: dôr, tôledôth. As a rendering of the later, the Vulgate plural form, generationes, is treated in the article GENEALOGY. As a rendering of the former, the word generation is used in the following principal senses.

GESENIUS, Thesaurus (Leipzig, 1829); FURST, Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon (Leipzig, 1867); BROWN, DRIVER AND BRIGGS, Hebrew and English Lexicon (New York, 1906).

Source notes

APA citation. Gigot, F. (1909). Generation. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06412c.htm

MLA citation. Gigot, Francis. "Generation." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. <https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06412c.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Scott Anthony Hibbs.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. September 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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