parentage

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.