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Novercal

//nəʊˈvɜː(ɹ)kəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a stepmother. dated, not-comparable

    "when almost the whole tribe of birds do thus, by incubation, produce their young , it is a wonderful deviation , that some few families only ſhould do it in a more novercal way"

Etymology

From Latin novercalis, from noverca (“a stepmother”).

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