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de·scen·dants
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descendants, posteritynoun
all of the offspring of a given progenitor
"we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"
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descendants
Descendants are individuals who are directly related to a certain person or group and come after them in lineage or genealogy. This includes children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on. Descendants can also refer to products, outcomes or developments that have evolved from a particular entity or idea.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of descendants in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of descendants in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of descendants in a Sentence
Now, our ancestors sacrificed their blood, their sweat, their tears, their fortunes, and sometimes their lives, to give us, their descendants, an America that is the greatest nation in world history. So I have a question for you : Are you willing to do the same ?
If you have been placed in a position above others, are you automatically going to behave like a despot? Remember who you are and whom you govern – that they are kinsmen, brothers by nature, fellow descendants of Zeus.
The seizure of Bruce’s Beach nearly a century ago was an injustice inflicted upon not just Willa and Charles Bruce but generations of their descendants who almost certainly would have been millionaires.
We know little about (Emma) and a lack of fundamental information, such as her age at death, what she did for a living, what she looked like or where in the church she was buried, coupled with no known descendants who can provide a DNA sample, make it impossible to say for certain (if the skeleton) is that of Emma.
After the body is placed in the tomb, there are constant events and activities, that is to say, their descendants keep coming back over many years and placing food and offerings there, including molluscs.
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