Definition of "ancestors" []

• Plural form of ancestor. (noun)

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• "But being proud of who you are and your ancestors is a personal issue, and the government should stay out of, and so should everyone else."
• "And that the children of the unwanted should be those that returned to the old world in convoys and troops ships to liberate Italy and France and Holland and the countries which didn't want their ancestors is an idea that's almost Shakespearean."
• "To justify the imprecations of vengeance upon the sinner's posterity, the sin of his ancestors is here brought into the account (v. 14, 15), the iniquity of his fathers and the sin of his mother."