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Definition of Descendents
1. descendent [n] - See also: descendent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Descendents
Literary usage of Descendents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"applied only to the descendents of the destroyed cities of the plain. This seemed
to settle it. I had supposed that nothing short of a fight could wash out ..."
2. Cases Decided in the House of Lords, on Appeal from the Courts of Scotland by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, James Wilson, Patrick Shaw, Charles Hope Maclean, William Reginald Courtenay Devon (1829)
"... the eldest heir-female ' of the body of the said Boyd Porterfield, my grandson,
and ' the descendents of his body, without division; ..."
3. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (1824)
"Of the succession o/" descendents. " IF a person dieth intestate, leaving a
descendent of either " sex, or of whatsoever degree; such descendent is to be ..."
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