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Pro-lifers believe that all human life should be treated with dignity and respect, no matter what the parentage may be.

Given his parentage, Ai is considered a "princeling," a member of the political elite.

Their sex lives and the parentage of their children are called into question.

He was born on Staten island, of Dutch parentage, and was a soldier in the regular service nearly 60 years.

For its real parentage we must have recourse to the Latin dominus or domina which produced the Gallic dame.

I think a good likely girl, and a parish child of St. Bride's, of honest parentage, and recommended by the churchwarden.

They both know the secret of my parentage, although old Meg has told me a hundred times that I was cast up by the sea.

These young people were all Americans, of Christian parentage, as the word means, not Hebrews.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to parentage, such as: bloodline, derivation, lineage, ancestor, antecedent, and birth.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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