I can’t find any definition that says that. Where are you finding that definition. Bloodline is relatives by blood, uncles are relatives by blood, hence why uncles could gain the throne in any bloodline inheritance society.
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Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 4 weeks agoBloodline is the blood in you, mother and father, and their mothers and fathers, all the way back. Unc ain’t in your blood.
tyler@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
A bloodline is a direct line of descent or pedigree, representing a sequence of ancestors from which a person or animal inherits characteristics.
There I took 30 seconds to find the actual definition.
tyler@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
“all the members of a family group of people or animals over a period of time, especially when considering their shared family characteristics: " - cambridge
“(usually of animals) the line of descent; pedigree; strain.” (what you’re talking about, but you’re reading it the wrong direction) or " all the members of a family group over generations, esp regarding characteristics common to that group; pedigree” - dictionary.com
“A person’s bloodline is their ancestors over many generations, and the characteristics they are believed to have inherited from these ancestors. You can also use bloodline to refer to the ancestors of animals such as racehorses.” - Collins
“1. (usu. of animals) the line of descent; pedigree; strain.” “2. ancestry; family.” - Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary
“One’s ancestors or their character or one’s ancestral derivation:” - The American Heritage® Roget’s Thesaurus
“the descendants of one individual; “his entire lineage has been warriors”” - WordNet 3.0
The problem here comes from the fact that you are reading your definition and going upwards, rather than starting at the top and going downwards. Line of descent goes downwards. It’s literally in the definition you gave. So even your parents aren’t in your line of descent, because that’s going up. But if you are talking about a bloodline from your grandparents then yes, you and your uncle are in that bloodline. cause that’s what line of descent is.
so no… “Bloodline is the blood in you, mother and father, and their mothers and fathers, all the way back. Unc ain’t in your blood.” is incorrect. If you are counting mother and father and their mothers and fathers all the way back then yes, your uncles and aunts are in that bloodline.
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
I agree, you and your uncle are in grandpas bloodline. But uncle is not in YOUR bloodline, and grandpa wasn’t in the OP discussion.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
TIL, I never would have thought it had to be a direct line. My uncle has more of a DNA match to me than my great great grandparents. Weird word.
tyler@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
they’re using it wrong. They’re going upwards with it when bloodline is a line of descent. So your parents are not in your bloodline, but of course that’s not what we were talking about since they directly said “Bloodline is the blood in you, mother and father, and their mothers and fathers, all the way back. Unc ain’t in your blood.” Since they’re including grandparents to infinity, your uncles and aunts are in that bloodline. You can read my comment for more…
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
maybe not in your family tree…