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Meanings of parentage in English

Portuguese
sangue
Catalan
nissaga
Spanish
casta

The descendants of one individual.

      sangue
      Catalan
      maternitat

      The state of being a parent.

            maternitat
            Portuguese
            paternidade
            Catalan
            nissaga
            Spanish
            origen

            The kinship relation of an offspring to the parents.

                  paternidade
                  Usage of parentage in English
                  1
                  A child's right to know its genetic parentage should always come first.
                  The Irish Times
                  2
                  It shocked me to hear him admit my eldest brother's true parentage.
                  Song of the Nile
                  3
                  He wanted to tell Quentin what Coran had said about his parentage.
                  Ilse Witch
                  4
                  This divine parentage has the sense in which the words were spoken.
                  AE in the Irish Theosophist
                  5
                  This was the first intimation given of the parentage of the child.
                  France in the Nineteenth Century
                  6
                  Graphically, it made sense because it clarifies that they're of different parentage.
                  The Guardian
                  7
                  To Erasmus of Rotterdam is generally given the parentage of the Reformation.
                  A Wanderer in Holland
                  8
                  At least Lydia had never suspected the truth about her own parentage.
                  Ruthless
                  9
                  You have doubts regarding your parentage; I know but little of mine.
                  Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 23
                  10
                  Microsatellites are widely used to investigate connectivity and parentage in marine organisms.
                  Pubmed
                  11
                  Age, about 30; birthplace and parentage, unknown, probably South American; profession, journalist.
                  The Gadfly
                  12
                  We would tell the child the truth about his or her parentage.
                  The Complete Rama Omnibus
                  13
                  And why had Brom not told him the truth about his parentage?
                  Brisingr
                  14
                  Ouattara was banned from a 2000 poll because of his foreign parentage.
                  Reuters
                  15
                  Not in any mind was there a doubt as to his parentage.
                  There & Back
                  16
                  That much his parentage defines for him, that is the natural man.
                  Mankind in the Making
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