parentage
Noun
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Noun
parentage
- The identity and nature of one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
- The social quality of one's class in society.
- 1608, Shakespeare, Pericles, Act 5, Scene 1:
- My fortunes -- parentage -- good parentage -- To equal mine! -- was it not thus? What say you?
- 1608, Shakespeare, Pericles, Act 5, Scene 1:
- origin; derivation
- Born and raised in Pristina, he was a Kosovar of Albanian parentage.
- French: parenté
- Russian: происхождение
- Spanish: parentela
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