Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of having or being composed of many lines.
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Despite the fact that many family lines contribute to the continuance of a lineage by means of marriages across time, any attempt to base a reckoning of descent upon a principle of polylineality would inevitably destroy the human lineage and throw the structure of society into a confusion by utterly obscuring the essential distinctions between the various lineages of which society is composed.
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polylineality. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polylineality
“polylineality.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polylineality. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “polylineality,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/polylineality.
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