progenitorshipn.
/prə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnᵻtəʃɪp/, U.S. /prəˈdʒɛnədərˌʃɪp/, /proʊˈdʒɛnədərˌʃɪp/ The fact or condition of being a progenitor; parenthood; ancestral relationship.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] > position of ancestor
ancestorship1823
progenitorship1828
1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 23 171 Their dead would disown them as scornfully as Cicero would the intellectual progenitorship of a Cicerone.
1839 J. Pye Smith Script. & Geol. 92 All land animals were created in pairs or other suitable modes of progenitorship, on one spot upon the earth's surface.
1870 J. Tyndall Let. 6 Apr. in Life & Lett. Huxley (1900) I. xxiv. 330 Anything that touches progenitorship interests them.
1962 Jrnl. Farm Econ. 44 690 If the test of parenthood be ability to recognise offspring, farmers must feel hard pressed to declare progenitorship for many foods and fabrics on retailers' shelves.
1977 Amer. Lit. 49 453 His chief claim upon the remembrance of posterity has seemed based on his progenitorship of a famous son and an even more famous grandson.
1991 A. McCarten Modest Apocalypse & Other Stories 19 That sort of impromptu humour..Roscoe could turn on when cornered by someone claiming, among other things, potential progenitorship.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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