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Definition of Granduncles
1. granduncle [n] - See also: granduncle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Granduncles
Literary usage of Granduncles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular Science Monthly (1902)
"... of relatives equally gifted: Or.-grandfathers 3 Grandfathers 17 Brothers 41
Fathers 31 granduncles 5 Nephews 22 Gifted Men 100 Uncles 18 Grandnephews. ..."
2. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1890)
"Their father, paternal uncles, paternal grandfather, and granduncles all suffered
in the same way from headaches, ..."
3. The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness by Hugh Miller, Louis Agassiz (1850)
"Under its green waves hia father sleeps: his grandfather, his two granduncles,
one of whom sailed round the world with Anson, lie also there; ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1898)
"... contrived to get “introduced to King James by noblemen attending on that
Prince, who inquired of me particularly about my grandfather and granduncles ..."
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