traducianism

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  The doctrine that the soul or spirit is inherited from one or both parents.
 * 2) * 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin (2004), page 37n:
 * Augustine's insistence on its spiritual nature made it hard for him to uphold, along with Tertullian, the doctrine of physical traducianism.