Synonyms

1. ancestry
2. filiation
3. derivation

Sentence Examples

1. An Elemental born to royal lineage may be able to pass the powers on to their offspring.
2. There is another thing, too, that is wanting for supposing we find a king who is at war and has a beautiful daughter, and that I have won incredible fame throughout the universe, I know not how it can be made out that I am of royal lineage, or even second cousin to an emperor for the king will not be willing to give me his daughter in marriage unless he is first thoroughly satisfied on this point, however much my famous deeds may deserve it so that by this deficiency I fear I shall lose what my arm has fairly earned.
3. The throne was not given to the most capable it was purely a matter of lineage.
4. Her lineage wiped out, her family and subjects slaughtered while she lived in the shadows of a foreign kingdom.
5. She had no intention of ending up married to some unknown man, however distinguished his lineage.
6. The confidante is present, observes all, goes to tell her mistress, who listens with tears and says that one of her greatest distresses is not knowing who this knight is, and whether he is of kingly lineage or not the damsel assures her that so much courtesy, gentleness, and gallantry of bearing as her knight possesses could not exist in any save one who was royal and illustrious her anxiety is thus relieved, and she strives to be of good cheer lest she should excite suspicion in her parents, and at the end of two days she appears in public.
7. The Hartooth would hunt them down and destroy them because of their royal lineage for that reason.
8. His long nose and swarthy features are courtesy of his German father - a Bavarian count whose scandalous lineage Lord Pole dedicates his life to nullifying.
9. For examples of the second sort of lineage, that began with greatness and maintains it still without adding to it, there are the many princes who have inherited the dignity, and maintain themselves in their inheritance, without increasing or diminishing it, keeping peacefully within the limits of their states.
10. His armour was dark, iron, and intricately crafted to display his lineage and his victories.