adj
Meaning 1
The quality of having or being composed of many lines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- Despite the fact that many family lines contribute to the continuance of a lineage by means of marriages across time, any attempt to base a reckoning of descent upon a principle of polylineality would inevitably destroy the human lineage and throw the structure of society into a confusion by utterly obscuring the essential distinctions between the various lineages of which society is composed.
Meaning relationships
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