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Definition of Lineages
1. lineage [n] - See also: lineage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lineages
Literary usage of Lineages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Normandy and of England by Francis Palgrave (1878)
"... we gradually discern the forefathers of those stately lineages, ... duty to
discover for most or all of these lineages princely or royal ancestors, ..."
2. The Counts of Falkenstein: Noble Self-consciousness in Twelfth-century Germany by John B. Freed (1984)
"... The Formation of Patrilineal lineages Karl Schmid has demonstrated that a
fundamental change occurred in the structure and self-perception of the German ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1889)
"The Battle Abbey Roll, witk some Account of th Norman lineages. By the Duchess
of Cleveland. 3 vols. London, 1889. THE task of writing the story of our ..."
4. Under Heaven's Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk by Ward Hunt Goodenough (2002)
"That lineage along with other lineages that it had 'sired' and to which it had
granted ... Each of these lineages was also entitled to maintain a 'hearth' ..."
5. The Natural & Moral History of the Indies by José de Acosta (1880)
"How the six lineages of ... These seven lineages I have spoken of, came not forth
all together: the first were the ..."
6. Genealogy of the Descendants of William Chesebrough of Boston, Rehoboth, Mass. by Anna Chesebrough Wildey (1903)
"... m. about 1856 Aaron Aldrich of Douglass, Mass. ; son, Cassius M. Aldrich,
lives in Taunton, Mass. lineages. ..."
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