grandparentagen.

1859 W. P. Bishop Rev. of Remington's Reasons vii. 61 Origen..was the child of Christian parentage, and grand-parentage, which, like Justin Martyr, reaches back even to apostolic times.

1889 Nature 24 Jan. 299/2 Families differently grouped according to their parentage and grandparentage.

1896 Daily News 10 Jan. 3/6 Such a life as might be expected from his grand-parentage.

1917 Month Mar. 241 She could not claim theatrical grandparentage or even parentage.

1958 Furrow 9 44 Five years ago twenty French Benedictines (led by a prior of Irish grandparentage) settled here in the very heart of Morocco.

2013 Express (Nexis) 11 Oct. England is a melting pot and..definitions of sporting eligibility have to reflect this. Parentage, grandparentage, and arrival in the country at an early age are sensible criteria.

1928 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 507 I'm a sort of guardeen of a half-grown grandchild who has gotten mighty sick of his grandpa. I bet he's ready to advocate companionate grandparentage.

1956 Princeton Alumni Weekly 13 Jan. 22/1 Among those enjoying the thrills of grandparentage for the first time.

1981 Field & Stream May 16/1 The people of that age usually associated with grandparentage or older are the ones that need youngsters around most of all.

1999 P. Bathous & C. Flanders Swell-Wimp Notes 219 When Dr. Flanders became a grandmother at age 38, I realized that my views of old age and grandparentage were out of synch with reality.