单词 | ancestress |
释义 | ancestress (once / 14241 pages) n WORD FAMILY ancestress: ancestresses USAGE EXAMPLESPerhaps a tender remembrance of his ancestress Ruth, the damsel from Moab, who had been so eminent for her devotion to her mother-in-law. Blaikie, William Garden, The Expositor's Bible: The First Bo...(2012) It was, nevertheless, an innovation on the usage of generations to which bygone ancestors and ancestresses would not readily have reconciled themselves. Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet), Social Transformations of the Victo...(2012) The daughters married into some of the best Antiguan families, and became the ancestresses of the Williams, Thomas, and Ffry families. Anonymous, Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I...(2012) n a woman ancestor Hyper ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) |
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