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ancestrally

adv. Pertaining to ancestry.

Usage examples of "ancestrally".

This touched the lingering superstition in which she had been ancestrally taught to regard herself as a means, when in a very tight place, and to leave the responsibility with the moral government of the universe.

He was ancestrally of the Swiss "Brahminical caste," as so many of his friends in Cambridge were of the Brahminical caste of New England.

No, here the seals were ancestrally akin to the Good Neighbours, and treated with the same cautious respect as the country-folk extended to the piskies.

They were, she had told him, ancestrally of Holland-Dutch stock, she and her sister.

At any rate, the exchange of ancestrally opprobrious language became very brisk.