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ancestral Adjective of or inherited from ancestors
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ancestral adjective inherited, hereditary, patriarchal, antecedent, forefatherly, genealogical, lineal, ancestorial Translationsancestral [ænˈsɛstrəl] adj → avito/a |
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| Have not I resolved within myself that the whole earth contains no fitter ornament for the great hall of my ancestral castle? "Milk and honey" would have been an appropriate inscription for the delicious little library which parents who, I surmised, doted on Nicolete in vain, had allowed her to build in a wild woodland corner of her ancestral park, half a mile away from the great house, where, for all its corridors and galleries, she could never feel, at all events, spiritually alone. Natasha and Nicholas often noticed their parents conferring together anxiously and privately and heard suggestions of selling the fine ancestral Rostov house and estate near Moscow. |
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