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Definition of Ancestresses
1. ancestress [n] - See also: ancestress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ancestresses
Literary usage of Ancestresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Club Makers and Club Members by Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (1914)
"... and her nineteenth-century ancestresses—The primitive clubwoman and her strange
contrast to the clubwoman of to-day—Ladies' ..."
2. The Virgin Birth by Richard H. Grützmacher (1907)
"ancestresses of the Messiah. In an anti- typical manner, and perhaps in a conscious
opposition to the Jewish blasphemies of the illegitimate birth of Mary, ..."
3. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1871)
"the Roman maids and matrons, who, as I think I have said before, have chosen to
be very uncomely since the rape of their ancestresses, byway of wreaking a ..."
4. A History of the Arabs in the Sudan and Some Account of the People who by Harold Alfred MacMichael (1922)
"... and the ancestresses of these were nomad Arabs. They used to marry whatever
they found, good or bad, among the races of mankind, and in consequence ..."
5. The Khasis by Philip Richard Thornhagh Gurdon (1914)
"Many of the clans trace their descent from ancestresses or ... the names of the
ancestresses of the clans being Ka Ngap (honey, ie the sweet one), ..."
6. Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by Herbert George Wells (1909)
"ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair
less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, ..."
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