Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The relation of a son to a father; sonship
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The relation of a son to a parent; sonship.
Etymologies
From Late Latin filietatem, from Latin filius ("son"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
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The paternity of A and the filiety of B are not two facts, but two modes of expressing the same fact.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)
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_like_ has its abstract _likeness_; the concretes, father and son, have, or might have, the abstracts, paternity, and filiety, or sonship.
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_like_ has its abstract _likeness_; the concretes, father and son, have, or might have, the abstracts, paternity, and filiety, or filiation.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)
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