Crossword-Solution: ANCESTRY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ancestry | n. | Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. |
| Ancestry | n. | A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “ANCESTRY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| People in your past | 1 answer |
| Genealogy dot-com | 1 answer |
| Family ties | 1 answer |
| Family tree subject | 2 answers |
| provenance | 5 answers |
| stirps | 12 answers |
| parentage | 15 answers |
| bloodline | 19 answers |
| Roots | 20 answers |
| Heritage | 25 answers |
| Genealogy | 28 answers |
| Pedigree | 28 answers |
| Extraction | 31 answers |
| Nativity | 35 answers |
| family tree | 38 answers |
| Lineage | 40 answers |
| GENESIS | 41 answers |
| From | 43 answers |
| BLOOD ___ | 57 answers |
| Root | 57 answers |
| Heredity | 59 answers |
| inner being | 63 answers |
| Race | 66 answers |
| Descent | 68 answers |
| Breed | 70 answers |
| Source | 73 answers |
| "___ Family" | 74 answers |
| Origin | 82 answers |
| Line | 86 answers |
| Stock | 107 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANCESTRY (5)
Morally, as well as materially, there was a coarser fibre in those wives and maidens of old English birth and breeding than in their fair descendants, separated from them by a series of six or seven generations; for, throughout that chain of ancestry, every successive mother had transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty, and a slighter physical frame, if not character of less force and solidity than her own.
Instead were these frail creatures who had forgotten their high ancestry, and the white Things of which I went in terror.
Garvey said that these only led to increased racial friction, He argued that racial purity for both whites and blacks was superior to racial integration, Blacks should also be proud of their race and their ancestry.
But it is too fruitful a subject, this of hereditary resemblances,—the frequent recurrence of which, in a direct line, is truly unaccountable, when we consider how large an accumulation of ancestry lies behind every man at the distance of one or two centuries.
But let me see thee use the dress and costume of thy English ancestry—no short cloaks, no gay bonnets, no fantastic plumage in my decent household.
Quotes with ANCESTRY (3)
We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing.
Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favored evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely- make that miraculously- fortunate in your personal ancestry. Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth's mountains and rivers and oceans, everyone of your forbears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstance…
Universally accepted, microevolution has limits for what it can explain. These limits do not reach the center where the controversy lies - the Thesis of Common Ancestry was popularized by Charles Darwin. Darwin believed that the world we see today has come to us through an evolutionary process called natural selection. Through genetic mutation, species adapt and develop because the strongest of a species will survive and pass on their DNA to their successors. Macroevolution i…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1984–2023).