filiation

IPA: fɪɫiˈeɪʃʌn

noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being a child of a specified parent.
  • (countable) The ancestry or lineage shared by a group having the same bloodline.
  • (countable, law) The determination of paternity.
  • (countable, law) One that is derived from a parent or source; an offshoot.
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Examples of "filiation" in Sentences

  • For some, considering only the cause of filiation, which is nativity, put two filiations in Christ, just as there are two nativities.
  • Taking the theory of evolution as a basis, Comte affirmed that the fundamental law of history was that of historic filiation, that is, the Law of the Three States.
  • His history is, he argued, "a biography of things, a filiation of objects, not as pictures of an exhibition, but as records of the process of their coming into existence."
  • _On the contrary, _ others, considering only the subject of filiation, which is the person or hypostasis, put only one filiation in Christ, just as there is but one hypostasis or person.
  • But it is here, says Boethius, that creaturely logic breaks down when it tries to comprehend the Trinity: we have in some way to try to grasp the idea of a relation of fatherhood or filiation which is reflexive.
  • Obj. 2: Further, filiation, which is said of a man as being the son of someone, his father or his mother, depends, in a way, on him: because the very being of a relation consists _in being referred to another; _ wherefore if one of two relatives be destroyed, the other is destroyed also.
  • This gesture of taking the son hostage, the better to placidly kill the mother, this calm affirmation, in the face of the world, of a crime of filiation that extends an imaginary guilt to an entire family is well worth recalling a few ambassadors (to France, Spain, Italy, even to the United States).
  • Nature isn't religious because it makes any claims upon specific beliefs, but because the poet's ability to make natural surroundings "seem like society" (218) is the utmost reach of his ability to feel as though filiation could be extended, or affiliated, anywhere — to feel as if his actions and movements have an extensive and openly acknowledged impact.

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