Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Descendants considered collectively.
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Examples
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Of understanding that the line of descendancy is not continuous but arbitrary.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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I also feel that one of the results of Weiner's decision to put two years between the seasons -- and perhaps a conscious or unconscious choice on his part -- is that it gives us the opportunity to accelerate the professional ascendancy and of course descendancy (a real word?) of the characters, and that ultimately Peggy will supersede and replace Don in the advertising business.
All the Mad Men and all the Mad Women are having epiphanies 2008
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Of understanding that the line of descendancy is not continuous but arbitrary.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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After class he erases Baby Tadpole, then the arrows of descendancy, parent frog A, parent frog B.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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After class he erases Baby Tadpole, then the arrows of descendancy, parent frog A, parent frog B.
Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010
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Such critics, though, would be wise to remember that in the United States alone, more than 40 million Americans claim Irish descendancy, and the tiny island has been hugely significant in the development of American culture and economy.
Dan Treul: Obama Enjoys Kennedy-esque Popularity in Ireland 2009
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It is time to revolt against the corporate fascist descendancy of the Constitutional Government. '
OpEdNews - Diary: SENATOR HARRY REID: TIME TO WEAR THE MANTLE OF OFFICE 2009
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It is time to revolt against the corporate fascist descendancy of the Constitutional Government.
OpEdNews - Diary: SENATOR HARRY REID: TIME TO WEAR THE MANTLE OF OFFICE 2009
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I understand that the practical reason for “a uterine descendancy” was that one could determine who the mother was easily enough but not the father.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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I had always heard and read that not only do one's ancestors have to be Jewish for one to be formally Jewish, but that Judaism was a uterine descendancy.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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