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- noun Plural form of
parentage .
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Examples
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In those days all ref's came from doubtful parentages, and the linesmen were little better.
Will The First Gay Premiership Footballer Please Raise Your... 2007
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But when some inhabitants of the countrie, being mightie, and descended of good parentages, could not well brooke this hard dealing, they chose rather to be banished their countrey, then not to shake off the yoke of tyranny.
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What, the enclosures of reticence removed, were their respective parentages?
Ulysses 2003
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But when some inhabitants of the countrie, being mightie, and descended of good parentages, could not well brooke this hard dealing, they chose rather to be banished their countrey, then not to shake off the yoke of tyranny.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Although the insects were feeding everywhere on the sparsely scattered weeds growing under the hybrids, beetle feeding was found on only nine hybrids, representing four parentages.
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Schreiner provides an interesting diagram of random planting of 102 poplar hybrids, in plots of 50 trees each, representing 30 parentages.
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Some account would, of course, be wanted of their race, profession, and residence; also of their own respective parentages, and of their brothers and sisters.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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What, the enclosures of reticence removed, were their respective parentages?
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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-- Apparently the issue in the second generation is from two parentages.
A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science James Leslie Allan Kayll 1908
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They themselves got on a higher level, where _ex-post-facto_ parentages were possible.
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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