Parentage vs Nativity - What's the difference?
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Of or pertaining to one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
The social quality of your class in society.
* 1608 , Shakespeare, Pericles , Act 5, Scene 1:
origin; derivation
(also with capital initial) The birth of Jesus.
(Christianity) The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus; Christmas Day.
(astrology) Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology; a horoscope associated with a person's birth.
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 313:
As nouns the difference between parentage and nativity
is that parentage is of or pertaining to one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth while nativity is someone's birth; the place, time and circumstances of a birth.parentage
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(en noun)- My fortunes -- parentage -- good parentage -- To equal mine! -- was it not thus? What say you?
nativity
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(nativities)- Accordingly […] he was careful, as befitted a Fellow of the Royal Society, to note the exact nativity of his subjects whenever it could be discovered; in this way he hoped to make possible a scientific comparison of the course of human life with the astrological circumstances of its inception, and ths to arrive at a more exact astrology.
