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Lord having no right to accept jibe about ancestry (8)

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I believe the answer is:

pedigree

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'ancestry' is the definition.
(pedigree is a kind of ancestry)

'lord having no right to accept jibe' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'right' could be 'r' (common abbreviation) and 'r' is present in the answer.
'jibe' could be 'dig' ('dig' can be a synonym of 'jibe') and 'dig' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for pedigree that I've seen before include "Ancestry - genealogy" , "(Pure) ancestry" , "What a mongrel doesn't have" , "Genealogical table" , "Blood line" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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