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Definition of Descendants
1. Noun. All of the offspring of a given progenitor. "We must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"
Definition of Descendants
1. Noun. (plural of descendant) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Descendants
1. descendant [n] - See also: descendant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Descendants
Literary usage of Descendants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New England Historical and Genealogical RegisterNew England (1916)
"descendants of Walter Haynes and Peter Noye« of Sudbury, Mass. Newell. ...
Ancestry and descendants of William Hills, emigrant in 1632, and of Joseph Hills, ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"In the brief for HL Monteiro and associate appellees, it is insisted that the
testator used the word "descendants" in the sense of children of the first ..."
3. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1901)
"Ancestry and descendants of John Pratt of Hartford, Conn. ... Joannes, and his
descendants. Scotch highbinders in America. ..."
4. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1897)
"descendants of John Pitman, the first of the name in the colony of Rhode Island,
... [Genealogy of the descendants of Francis Plumer of Newbury.] 25 pp. ..."
5. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... descendants, said to have been compiled in 1840 by Sir William Beetham, Ulster
king- at-arms, his children are said to have settled in Ireland. ..."
6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... that there are numerous de- scendants of the first Earl in existence.
See titles, Petre, Newburgh, &c. SEG There certainly are living descendants of the ..."
7. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"In Adam seminally were the bodies of all his descendants (Contra Celsum, iv.;
... Pelagius saw in Adam only a bad example, which his descendants followed. ..."
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