line of descent
Example Sentences
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They were generally non-elite because they could not trace their genealogy in a line of descent from Shirazi Muslims.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
The female line of descent was therefore crucial to proving that one was a free person.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2020
A number of Capote’s reported works were methodologically in the line of descent from “Hiroshima,” culminating with “In Cold Blood,” which The New Yorker excerpted at great length in 1965.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019
His letter is an interruption in this line of descent, a familial relation not premised on the paternal.
From Slate • Feb. 15, 2017
There is a direct line of descent from the Strasbourg clock to the spinning jenny.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
