ancestry
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[edit] English
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- ancestrie (obsolete)
- auncestrie (obsolete)
- auncestry (obsolete)
[edit] Etymology
From Old French ancesserie. See ancestor.
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[edit] Noun
ancestry (plural ancestries)
- 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.
- A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
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