Meaning of grandancestor | Babel Free

Definitions

A distant ancestor.

rare

Examples

“In concluding this sketch⟳, it affords the writer much pleasure to state that the time-stained pages of the old record⟳ shows not a single case of theft, petit larceny, forgery or perjury on the part of the grandancestors of our old Norfolk families.”

“One more thing then I’ll stop⟳ dear parents on your mountaintop I and my fellow animal-creatures down here in the swamp are as closely related to the extraterrestrials over your heads as the rats to the stars and beyond where ancient grandancestors call⟳ the tune⟳ of the words of the singer I would croon if I had the cords […]”

“Nick takes a stick⟳ and pushes it into the sand of a blue-and-white vase so that the strand of smoke⟳ drifts up toward a portrait of some of Poppy’s grandancestors, stiff in Qing Dynasty brocades, as flat and anonymous and ornate as Elizabethan portraits.”

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