Meanings
noundescendance (uncountable)
- uncountableThe property of being a descendant; descent.
The relation of being a descendant is defined as the quasi ordering generated by immediate descendance.
1977, Haskell Brooks Curry, Foundations of Mathematical Logic, page 199
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