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ancestoring

ancestoring is the present participle and gerund of ancestor.

Meaning of ancestor

Verb

ancestor (third-person singular simple present ancestors, present participle ancestoring, simple past and past participle ancestored)

  1. (transitive) To be an ancestor of.
    • Her own grandfather had been a Virginian, a descendant of Pocahontas, of course, Pocahontas having been created by Divine Providence for the specific purpose of ancestoring Virginians.1920, Marie Conway Oemler, The Purple Heights, page 9

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Questions about ancestoring

What is ancestoring the present participle and gerund of?
Ancestoring is the present participle and gerund of ancestor.

Words near ancestoring in the dictionary

  1. ancestoral
  2. ancestored
  3. ancestorhood
  4. ancestorial
  5. ancestorially
  6. ancestoring
  7. ancestorism
  8. ancestorist
  9. ancestorists
  10. ancestors
  11. Ancestors Day

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ancestoring (page history and authors); ancestor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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