lineally

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Thus Italians owe to the House of Savoy no such agelong allegiance as Hungarians feel toward the Habsburgs, or Japanese toward their 124th lineally descended Emperor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The imperial character of the Japanese government to-day, for example, is said to be greatly enhanced in prestige by the widespread popular belief that the Emperor is lineally descended from divinity.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

At the bottom thereof is a flatt gravestone of freestone well worked, lineally with the figure of a lady in a Gothique niche.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton

He was lineally descended from Edmund Ironside, the last of the Saxon race of hereditary kings.

From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir

“The Congregationalists answer to the Independents of England and are sympathetically, and to a great extent, lineally descendants of the Puritans.”—Voice from America, p.

From Diary in America, Series One by Marryat, Frederick