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  • noun The property of descendence.

Etymologies

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descend +‎ -ency

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Examples

  • Where and when exactly do you claim the descendency from Jacob (AKA Israel) was broken?

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Okay, it's Eurocentric, and the logic is hardly watertight, but it does illustrate the relative meaningless of "direct" descendency over a span of 500 years.

    Week 18: Magic Is Not Thermodynamics Douglas Wolk 2006

  • And if my history serves me right, I believe there are some communities here that claim some sort of descendency from Alexander the Great.

    CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2005 2005

  • In itself, Bulworth is part of a descendency from other places: It is a grandchild of Frank Capra's big social comedies, with an innocent truth-teller rising on the shoulders of the people; it is a nephew of the old screwball comedies, where a man who was sure of his identity loses it and emerges as quite something else together.

    Warren Beatty Shampoos the Sleazy 90's 1998

  • The man with an ambition ever finds himself in the ascendency; while he who deplores the exercise of his powers, avoiding work as he would a powder magazine or a pest, is in the descendency toward a state of groveling and low ideals.

    A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece Charles Stewart Given

  • Antichrist must "prove" this same lineage to the Orthodox Jew, and through the lie of the Merovingian Bloodline, the European Monarchies can produce a line of descendency back to King David that will convince today's Jews.

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

  • Meanwhile, other researchers have opened their minds and taken a fresh look at scientific facts that have been known for an equally long time and come to the conclusion that descendency is very unlikely.

    Dakota Voice 2009

  • The descendency of each crossing is sowed separately in seed beds.

    innovations-report 2009

  • Antichrist must "prove" this same lineage to the Orthodox Jew, and through the lie of the Merovingian Bloodline, the European Monarchies can produce a line of descendency back to King David that will convince today's Jews.

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

  • Antichrist must "prove" this same lineage to the Orthodox Jew, and through the lie of the Merovingian Bloodline, the European Monarchies can produce a line of descendency back to King David that will convince today's Jews.

    Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com 2009

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