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Ancestry   /ˈænsɛstri/   Listen
noun
Ancestry  n.  
1.
Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. "Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible."
2.
A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... for items, details of my early life—of genealogy and parentage, particularly of the women of my ancestry, and of its far-back Netherlands stock on the maternal side—of the region where I was born and raised, and my mother and father before me, and theirs before them—with a word about Brooklyn and New York cities, ...
— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman
... with admiration in his eyes. Helen was worthy of inspection. Her thin summer dress, with the cluster of crimson roses tucked into the waist of it, brought out her rich beauty which betokened a Latin ancestry. ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss
... doffed his hat, bent his head and began. And the good Lord who heard his prayer did not need to ask his pedigree, for the Irish intonation with which he rolled the words off his tongue in honey-like waves told his ancestry: ...
— With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly
... of the origin of Christmas-trees is of great interest. Though their affinity to other sacraments of the |268| vegetation-spirit is evident, it is difficult to be certain of their exact ancestry. Dr. Tille regards them as coming from a union of two elements: the old Roman custom of decking houses with laurels and green trees at the Kalends of January, and the popular belief that every Christmas Eve apple and other ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles
... of the marsh perpetuates his kind as inevitably as the sweetest songster of the grove; so, equally with every felicity, all miserable events do naturally beget their like. Yea, more than equally, thought Ahab; since both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. For, not to hint of this: that it is an inference from certain canonic teachings, that while some natural enjoyments here shall have no children ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville


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