Meanings
plural haveages · alternative havage
- archaiccountableuncountableLineage; family background.
As to her haveage I am as ignorant as yourselves.
1916, Ashton Hilliers, “Demi-Royal”, in The Living Age, volume 291, page 2132 more examples
In neighbourliness, then, and for the sake of his haveage, Nicky Nan's first welcome home had been kindly enough.
1914 November, Arthur Quiller-Couch, “Nicky-Nan, Reservist”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 196, number 1189, page 677Nor 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.
2022, Arthur Quiller-Couch, News from the Duchy
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