lineally

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Thus Italians owe to the House of Savoy no such agelong allegiance as Hungarians feel toward the Habsburgs, or Japanese toward their 124th lineally descended Emperor.

From Time Magazine Archive

From this class I am lineally descended; and, at an early age, was duly initiated into all the mysteries of my profession.

From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick

The imperial character of the Japanese government to-day, for example, is said to be greatly enhanced in prestige by the widespread popular belief that the Emperor is lineally descended from divinity.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

Are we obliged to settle an annuity upon A B, because he can trace himself lineally to a man who held our lands under Edward the Confessor?

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

“The Congregationalists answer to the Independents of England and are sympathetically, and to a great extent, lineally descendants of the Puritans.”—Voice from America, p.

From Diary in America, Series One by Marryat, Frederick