havagen.
/ˈhavɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈhævɪdʒ/ English regional (south-western).
Lineage, parentage, ancestry.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun]
kinc892
strindc900
i-cundeOE
bloodOE
kindredOE
birtha1250
strainc1275
gesta1300
offspring?a1300
lineagea1330
descentc1330
linec1330
progenya1382
generationc1384
engendrurec1390
ancestry?a1400
genealogya1400
kind?a1400
stranda1400
coming?a1425
bedc1430
descencec1443
descension1447
ligneea1450
originc1450
family1474
originala1475
extraction1477
nativityc1485
parentelea1492
stirpc1503
stem?c1550
race1563
parentage1565
brood1590
ancientry1596
descendance1599
breeding1600
descendancy1603
delineation1606
extract1631
ancestory1650
agnation1782
havage1799
engendure1867
1799 ‘P. Pindar’ Nil Admirari 23 Peter knoweth Miss Hannah's havage, knoweth all her points, and pronounceth her unqualified for a first-rate Racer.
1837 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. i. 7 Her come vrom a good havage,—the very daps of her mother.
1846 ‘J. Treenoodle’ Specimens Cornish Provinc. Dial. 55 I do knaw all the havage of thee.
1897 Western Times (Exeter) 3 Jan. 2/2 A man of Western havage, of Western education, and once Bishop of this Westernmost See.
1920 E. Phillpotts Orphan Dinah (1921) viii. 93 He won't..save your character from the tyrant things stuffed into it by your havage.
1997 J. Whinray Down 'long weth We 28 Why I do knaw all the havage of thee, thee crazed hoddymandoddy, for all tha braave cloase.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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