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plural ancestries
The state of being ancestors examples
birth to a noble or high-ranking family, or to someone of honorable descent. quotations examples
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
August 1 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian volume 123
Tali: My people place a high value on family and ancestry. There's an unspoken expectation that I'll live up to my father's example.
2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: SSV Normandy
A series of ancestors; the people from whom one is descended examples