parentage (age as ig)

[Fr.] 1. Birth, extraction, origin, lineage; condition with regard to the rank or character of ancestors or parents. *2. The state or condition of being a parent. *3. Parents. "He cal'd his daughters, and with speeches sage Inquyr'd which of them most did love her parentage , Spenser: F. Q. , II., x. 27. [Lat. parental is , from parens =