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
He was lineally descended from Edmund Ironside, the last of the Saxon race of hereditary kings.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone
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
How the Centuries stand lineally related to each other.
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
He was lineally descended from Auld Watt, an ancient chieftain whose name he often made ring in border ballads.
From Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold
