Meaning of haveage | Babel Free

Definitions

Lineage; family background.

archaic, countable, uncountable

Examples

“In neighbourliness, then, and for the sake of his haveage, Nicky Nan's first welcome home had been kindly enough.”

“As to her haveage I am as ignorant as yourselves.”

“Nor could he tell me anything when I questioned him concerning his haveage; which I did upon report that he was courting my housemaiden Grace Pascoe, an honest good girl, whom I was loth to see waste herself upon an unworthy husband.”

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