[ 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
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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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