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单词 parentage
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parentagen.

Brit. /ˈpɛːrəntɪdʒ/, /ˈpɛːrn̩tɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈpɛrən(t)ədʒ/
Forms: late Middle English– parentage; Scottish pre-1700 parantage, pre-1700 parentadge, pre-1700 parentaiche, pre-1700 1700s– parentage.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: parent n., -age suffix.
Etymology: < parent n. + -age suffix, originally after Anglo-Norman and Middle French parentage (in Middle French also as parentaige ; French parentage ) kin, relatives, family (c1100 in Old French), exercise of the functions of a parent (c1480 in the passage translated in quot. 1490 at sense 1a), (now usually) kinship, relationship, consanguinity (c1170 or earlier in Anglo-Norman; subsequently from 1538). Compare post-classical Latin parentagium relationship (late 11th or early 12th cent.). With sense 1b compare earlier parentality n., parentdom n., parenthood n., and parentship n. With sense 4 compare earlier parentela n., parentele n. With sense 5 compare earlier parage n. 3.
1.
a. Exercise of the functions of a parent; parental conduct or treatment. Obsolete. rare.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > parenthood > [noun] > conduct
parentinec1460
parentage1490
parenting1918
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iv. 123 Our fader..sholde have slayne vs, if it hadde not be our lorde that kepte vs therfro..Sore harde parentage [Fr. parentaige] dyd he shewe to vs, our naturell fader.
1623 J. Wodroephe Spared Houres Souldier 478/2 Good Amitie is a second Parentage.
1845 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. II. 99 Plato ordains community of wives, and interdicts parentage.
b. The condition or status of a parent; parenthood. Also figurative.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > parenthood > [noun]
parentality1780
parentship1838
parenthood1853
parentage1876
1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 165 This supposes that Tyre, since it had reached the age of political parentage, must have come into possession of considerable power some time before.
1877 E. S. Phelps Story of Avis xv. 275 Romances, in which parentage is represented as a blindly deifying privilege, which it were an irreverence to associate with teething..or an insufficient income.
1887 R. D. Blackmore Springhaven III. v. 54 Another race..with doubts whether marriage could make parentage between them.
1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner Nov. 290/2 People marry, not only for parentage, but for this exquisite interchange.
1988 W. M. Clarke Secret Life Wilkie Collins xii. 141 ‘My two children’ (his first acknowledgement of parentage in print).
2.
a. The origins of one's parents and ancestors in relation to inherited rank or character; hereditary status or quality. Usually with modifying word.The notion of good or high birth is usually understood when a modifying word is absent: see quot. 1608.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > stock, race, or family > [noun]
kinc825
strindc900
maegtheOE
i-cundeeOE
birdeOE
houseOE
kindOE
kindreda1225
bloodc1300
strainc1330
lineage?a1366
generationa1382
progenya1382
stock1382
nationc1395
tribec1400
ligneea1450
lifec1450
family1474
prosapy?a1475
parentage1490
stirpc1503
pedigree1532
racea1547
stem?c1550
breed1596
progenies1673
familia1842
uji1876
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xi. 41 They whiche ben borne of basse parentage.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxxviij Cicile Duches of Yorke..a woman of small stature, but of muche honour and high parentage.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 649 Heyres of great parentage in the South part.
1608 J. Dod & R. Cleaver Plaine Expos. Prov. xi–xii. 49 Poore women which neither haue parentage, nor beauty, nor riche apparel to set them forth.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iv. 32 He askt me of what parentage I was; I told him of as good as he. View more context for this quotation
1697 K. Chetwood Life Virgil in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. *2 Marc Antony..vex'd him with a great many Libelling Letters, in which he reproaches him with the baseness of his Parentage.
1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. iii. 95 They upbraided him with the Meanness of his Parentage.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. xi. 99 Born of humble parentage.
1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God i. v. 67 Men of consular and quæstorial parentage.
1896 Argosy Mar. 549/1 A young man of distinguished parentage who..was eagerly entertained by the most prominent tuft hunters in New York.
1990 W. P. Roe Glimpses Chiswick's Place in Hist. 22 Cromwell..increased his troops.., enrolling godly men, often of poor and mean parentage, but inclined to his own Puritan thoughts.
b. The identity of one's parents, now esp. as regards nationality or ethnicity; descent, lineage.
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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
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Parentela..Parentage: auncestrie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. ii. 142 The elder [child],..ignorant of his birth and parentage, Became a Bricklayer, when he came to age. View more context for this quotation
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Pref. sig. C3v That doubly Honourable (both for his parts and parentage) Mr. Boyle.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. ix. 363 Settlements by parentage..all legitimate children being really settled in the parish where their parents are settled.
1833 J. Neal Down-easters I. ix. 134 He'll do it any day o' the week..let alone Saturdays—of course the speaker was a Marylander of Irish parentage.
1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 714 The alleged parentage of her son Harold was generally doubted.
1955 V. Nabokov Lolita I. iii. 16 Annabel was, like the writer, of mixed parentage: half-English, half-Dutch, in her case.
1984 J. Morgan Agatha Christie ii. 26 There was also a mystery about Vera's parentage (as girls of Agatha's age often wish there might be about their own).
2001 V. Prashad Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting iii. 83 The important Trinidadian labor leader of the 1920s was Charles Henry Pierre, a well-known dougla (the word, often pejorative, is used to index those of Afro-Indian parentage).
c. In extended use: the source or origin of something.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun]
welleOE
mothereOE
ordeOE
wellspringeOE
fathereOE
headeOE
oreOE
wellspringOE
rootc1175
morea1200
beginningc1200
head wella1325
sourcec1374
principlea1382
risinga1382
springinga1382
fountain14..
springerc1410
nativity?a1425
racinea1425
spring1435
headspring?a1439
seminaryc1440
originationc1443
spring wellc1450
sourdre1477
primordialc1487
naissance1490
wellhead?1492
offspringa1500
conduit-head1517
damc1540
springhead1547
principium1550
mint1555
principal1555
centre1557
head fountain1563
parentage1581
rise1589
spawna1591
fount1594
parent1597
taproot1601
origin1604
fountainhead1606
radix1607
springa1616
abundary1622
rist1622
primitive1628
primary1632
land-spring1642
extraction1655
upstart1669
progenerator1692
fontala1711
well-eye1826
first birth1838
ancestry1880
Quelle1893
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions v. 35 This worde, γραμματικὴ, with..γραϕικὴ, both the two of one parentage and petigree.
1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. ii. 9 We shall find it to spring from honourable parentage.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 485 That admirable system of maxims and unwritten customs, which is now known by the name of the common law..doubtless of Saxon parentage.
1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 153 The superstition..is of very ancient and respectable parentage.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 436 Sin..shows by ethical likeness its Satanic parentage.
1933 Discovery Mar. 76/2 The runner bean..of Mexican parentage or origin is here grown as a tender annual.
1992 Car Feb. 42/3 Befitting its Lexus parentage, the Aristo is eerily quiet on the move.
3. A person's parents collectively. Obsolete. rare (archaic in later use).
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > [noun] > collectively
genitor1447
parentagea1513
parentdom1840
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xviii. sig. f.iiii This blessed Audry, from her yonge aege Was..Obedyent lowly, vnto her parentage.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. X7v He..Inquyrd, which of them most did loue her parentage.
1877 G. M. Hopkins Let. 23 July (1955) 42 Parentage of course will ‘put me up’, at Hampstead.
4. Relationship, kinship; (also) relations collectively, kindred. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun]
sibOE
kindredOE
sibredlOE
sibnessa1250
sib-lawc1275
kindheadc1325
cousinagec1350
kinheada1375
affinitya1382
kindnessc1390
parentelec1390
parentelac1415
parentage1548
relation1561
cousinship1570
connatenessa1652
relationship1724
kindredship1733
connection1773
familyhood1808
kindredness1826
kinsmanship1842
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > relations or kindred > [noun]
kinc825
sibOE
kindredOE
sibness?a1300
kindc1325
affinity1357
cousinagea1382
cognationc1384
kinhoodc1440
kinsfolkc1450
evenkina1500
relation1502
kindsfolk1555
folks1715
cousinhood1748
loved onea1756
parentage1768
concerns1818
belonging1842
cousinry1844
cousinship1865
kinspeople1866
kinfolk1873
1548 Duke of Somerset Epist. Inhabitauntes Scotl. A iv b By mariage..one bloude, one lignage and parentage, is made of twoo.
c1555 H. Watson tr. Valentine & Orson (1937) 216 We wyl neuer let hym lyue nor holde hym of our parentage.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1646/2 By equalitie and loue, whyche is by parentage and mariage.
1657 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. Paruta Politick Disc. 56 If Cato had not despised the Parentage offered him by Pompey.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xvi. 310 The Souldier is also Priviledg'd to make a Will; and to give away his Estate which he got in War..without Consideration of Parentage, or Relations.
1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) ii. 93 Signor Luiggi Giafferi..who had a numerous parentage.
5. = parage n. 3. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > types of tenure by inheritance
Borough-English1327
parage1450
courtesy1523
homage ancestral?1538
borough-kind1577
tanistrya1599
borough-tenurea1670
parentage1728
curiality1861
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Parage This Parage being an Equality of Duty or Service among Brothers and Sisters, some have call'd it Fratrage and Parentage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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