[
US
/ˈpɛɹəntədʒ/
]
[ UK /pˈeəɹəntɪdʒ/ ]
[ UK /pˈeəɹəntɪdʒ/ ]
NOUN
-
the state of being a parent
to everyone's surprise, parenthood reformed the man -
the descendants of one individual
his entire lineage has been warriors - 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.