Associations to the word «Telegony»

Wiktionary

TELEGONY, noun. The belief that in the case of siblings from the same mother but different fathers the second sibling could inherit characteristics from the father of the first

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope