Polylineality
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality of having or being composed of many lines. uncountable
"Despite the fact that many family lines contribute to the continuance of a lineage by means of marriages across time, any attempt to base a reckoning of descent upon a principle of polylineality would inevitably destroy the human lineage and throw the structure of society into a confusion by utterly obscuring the essential distinctions between the various lineages of which society is composed."
Example
More examples"Despite the fact that many family lines contribute to the continuance of a lineage by means of marriages across time, any attempt to base a reckoning of descent upon a principle of polylineality would inevitably destroy the human lineage and throw the structure of society into a confusion by utterly obscuring the essential distinctions between the various lineages of which society is composed."
Etymology
From polylineal + -ity.
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