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fathered, birth, nativity, that which has been begotten, men of the same stock, a family, the several ranks of natural descent, the successive members of a genealogy, metaph. a group of men very like each other in endowments, pursuits, character, esp. in a bad sense, a perverse nation, the whole multitude of men living at the same time, an age (i.e. the time ordinarily occupied be each successive generation), a space of 30 - 33 years