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noun

Filiation n.

The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father. "The relation of paternity and filiation."

(Law) The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.

Descent from, or as if from, a parent; relationship like that of a son; as, to determine the filiation of a language.

One that is derived from a parent or source; an offshoot; as, the filiations are from a common stock.

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Etymology of 'Filiation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Filiation" Quotes from Famous Books

... while phrasing their relation to the "deus absconditus" in various ways, were utterly free from that penitential, supplicatory abjectness which is the mark of Asian salvationism. And though of course the conscious filiation to Greece and Rome is rare, the habit of mind which holds up its head in the world and feels no childish craving to cling to the skirts of a God, is not rare at all. Therefore I conceive that people who are shaken out of their conventional, unrealized Christianity by the earthquake of the war will ...

— God and Mr. Wells - A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' • William Archer

... sit; and being asked several questions, which he cannot answer, and taking several oaths, very much resembling those said to be administered at Highgate, Neptune proceeds to confer upon him the honour of filiation, by rather an extraordinary process. Two of the sea-nymphs, generally tall stout fellows, pinion his arms to his sides; and another, bringing a bucket filled with grease and slops from the kitchen, sets ...

— The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 • G. R. Gleig