Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of being a father; fatherhood.
- noun Descent on a father's side; paternal descent.
- noun Authorship; origin.
- adjective Relating to or involving the identification of a person's biological father.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fathership; fatherhood; the relation of a father to his offspring.
- noun Derivation from a father: as, the child's paternity is unknown. Hence Origin; authorship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship.
- noun Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage.
- noun Origin; authorship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
fatherhood , being a father - noun parental descent from a father
- noun law legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child
- noun figuratively
authorship
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being a father
- noun the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing
- noun the kinship relation between an offspring and the father
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Considering the numerous preferences that the law gives to mothers in paternity issues, I think that fathers can at least have one bone tossed their way.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Discrimination in Child Naming Law 2010
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Considering the numerous preferences that the law gives to mothers in paternity issues, I think that fathers can at least have one bone tossed theirway.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Discrimination in Child Naming Law 2010
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Consultant surgeon Dr Dafydd Woodruff (so I guess we must call him Mr not Dr) finds himself embroiled in paternity allegations (twins no less) all stemming from a locum he did as a young doctor in Moose Creek way out in the backwoods of Canada.
Ice Trap 2007
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Consultant surgeon Dr Dafydd Woodruff (so I guess we must call him Mr not Dr) finds himself embroiled in paternity allegations (twins no less) all stemming from a locum he did as a young doctor in Moose Creek way out in the backwoods of Canada.
Ice Trap 2007
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Consultant surgeon Dr Dafydd Woodruff (so I guess we must call him Mr not Dr) finds himself embroiled in paternity allegations (twins no less) all stemming from a locum he did as a young doctor in Moose Creek way out in the backwoods of Canada.
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I pondered all this the other day, off for a few weeks on a short term paternity leave, as my daughter wandered around our local park, and I reviewed the Buffalo Bills 2009 schedule (impossible) and the San Francisco Giants 'starting rotation (good).
Nathan Hegedus: Men Are Idiots to Not Fight for Paternity Leave 2009
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I don't know why I was so fascinated -- maybe because there's a surviving baby whose paternity is in question, the loss of her adult son a few months earlier, her case going to the Supreme Court, her ever-changing appearance and behavior.
The Heroism Vacuum 2007
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Excluding paternity is fairly simple - if the child has a marker allele not present in either the mother or alleged father then, barring new mutations, the alleged father is not the biological father.
Archive 2004-12-01 2004
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She calls the paternity challenges by a Los Angeles photographer, quote, "crazy."
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The use of blood-group determination in paternity actions also constitutes a significant advance in this field, even though the proof is of a negative character.
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