Descent

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NOUN

a movement downward

origin, extraction

properties attributable to your ancestry

the act of changing your location in a downward direction

line of descent, lineage, filiation

the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension

a downward slope or bend

lineage, line, line of descent, bloodline, blood line

the descendants of one individual

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