(n) :
condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent; a series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent
"title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. --Addison."
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(n) :
condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent; a series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent
"title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. --Addison."