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[ US /ˈpɛɹəntədʒ/ ]
[ UK /pˈe‍əɹəntɪd‍ʒ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of being a parent
    to everyone's surprise, parenthood reformed the man
  2. the descendants of one individual
    his entire lineage has been warriors
  3. the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents

How To Use parentage In A Sentence

  • He recalls that, in the painful heat of the moment, he was ‘the first to miscall the parentage’ of the future Scotland manager.
  • The methodology is applicable to the investigation of parentage for all progeny developed from parental mating without subsequent generations of inbreeding.
  • Well his background, his parentage and his ancestry was Jewish.
  • The novel starts when a child of unknown parentage is left at the house of the local priest.
  • The explanation lies in their mixed parentage. Times, Sunday Times
  • But whatever the parentage, this new decentralized way admits to no national origin nor exclusive use by anyone.
  • An action for declarator of parentage, non-parentage, legitimacy, legitimation or illegitimacy may be brought in the Court of Session or the Sheriff Court.
  • Now, every bloody tale from a slasher series such as Halloween to the video nasties of the 1970s can trace some element of their parentage back to Psycho.
  • Glaucophane and riebeckite are found in low-grade schists of basic igneous parentage; crocidolite occurs in medium-grade metamorphosed ironstones.
  • The nineteen-year-old in question is precociously hirsute on account of his Mediterranean parentage.
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