Ancestry
['ænsestrɪ] or ['ænsɛstri]
Definition
(noun.) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline.
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Definition
(n.) Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
(n.) A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Lineage, family, race, house, line of ancestors.[2]. Pedigree, stock, genealogy, descent.
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Examples
- Wert thou to fly, what would ensue but the reversal of thy arms, the dishonour of thine ancestry, the degradation of thy rank? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But let me see thee use the dress and costume of thy English ancestry--no short cloaks, no gay bonnets, no fantastic plumage in my decent household. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Were the pride of ancestry, the patrician spirit, the gentle courtesies and refined pursuits, splendid attributes of rank, to be erased among us? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He that would be the son of Cedric, must show himself of English ancestry. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Dr. Keith, swayed by the jaw-bone, does not think that _Eoanthropus_, in spite of its name, is a creature in the direct ancestry of man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The point under discussion was, how far any singular gift in an individual was due to his ancestry and how far to his own early training. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Possibly the implement-using disposition was already present in the Mesozoic ancestry from which we are descended. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was growling again, and whistling a half-strangled whistle, being an inheritance from the bulldog side of his ancestry. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He came of a foreign ancestry by the mother's side, and was himself born and partly reared on a foreign soil. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yet in all the relics of the Mesozoic time we find no certain memorials of his ancestry. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So too did the first-known step of our own ancestry upon land, the amphibia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The position of the Eoanthropus is very uncertain: it may be as early as the Pliocene] BOOK II THE MAKING OF MEN VIII THE ANCESTRY OF MAN[20] § 1. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But man walks so well and runs so swiftly as to suggest a very long ancestry upon the ground. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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