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- noun The property of
descendence .
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Examples
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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
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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
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And if my history serves me right, I believe there are some communities here that claim some sort of descendency from Alexander the Great.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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The descendency of each crossing is sowed separately in seed beds.
innovations-report 2009
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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.
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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.
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