All 4 Uses of
pedigree
in
Bleak House
- Mrs. Woodcourt, after expatiating to us on the fame of her great kinsman, said that no doubt wherever her son Allan went he would remember his pedigree and would on no account form an alliance below it.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- "Poor Mr. Woodcourt, my dear," she would say, and always with some emotion, for with her lofty pedigree she had a very affectionate heart, "was descended from a great Highland family, the MacCoorts of MacCoort.†
Chpt 28-30
- Less pedigree?†
Chpt 58-60
- Come you, and see my child from hour to hour; set what you see against her pedigree, which is this, and this'—for I scorned to mince it—'and tell me what is the true legitimacy when you shall have quite made up your mind on that subject.'†
Chpt 64-65
Definition:
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(pedigree) the line of ancestors of an animal
or more rarely:
the line of ancestors for a person; or general background of a person such as experience and education; or any background such as that of an idea