ancestorshipn.
/ˈansᵻstəʃɪp/, /ˈansɛstəʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈænˌsɛstərˌʃɪp/ Ancestral lineage or descent; ancestry. Also: the fact or status of being an ancestor.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] > position of ancestor
ancestorship1823
progenitorship1828
1823 Sandusky (Ohio) Clarion 23 July Are not your sons equally entitled to fill civil, religious, or military offices? Does obscurity of ancestorship debar this privilege?
1871 Sunday Mag. June 527/1 When Esau sold his birthright, he sold with it, consciously or unconsciously, the probable ancestorship of Christ.
1883 F. M. Müller India vii. 239 Ancestorship as a natural ingredient of religion among all savage nations.
1920 A. E. Garvie Tutors unto Christ iv. 39 Admitting the possibility of a deification of ancestors, and an ascription of ancestorship to deities.
1971 Financial Times 7 Jan. 3/4 Nabucco..anticipates Aīda, and Gui made this ancestorship tellingly clear.
2004 Albion 36 522 In Japan, adoption could provide heirs without violating the cult of ancestorship.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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