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dynasty
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See: ancestry, bloodline, descent, family, lineage, origin

DYNASTY. A succession of kings in the same line or family; government; sovereignty.



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Then she met a charming, up-and-coming politician from a powerful dynastic family and married him.
Over the past four decades, the concepts of Empowerment and Entitlement -- first-cousins in the dynastic family of American psychobabble -- have conspired to produce what New York Observer writer Alexandra Wolfe labels "the most coddled generation in American history.
Authors of dynastic sagas, he tells us, typically gather most of their facts from the periphery of the dynastic family, interviewing corps of friends, servants, and associates, tirelessly reading in family, business, and foundation archives, but rarely depending in any crucial way upon interviews with family members themselves; approaching them, indeed, in a manner that is "hedged and restrained," and learning little from them.
 
 
 
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