ancestry
/ˈæn.sɛs.tɹi/
noun
- 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. -Addison.”
- 2
A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
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