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Filiation

noun
1.
The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors.  Synonyms: descent, line of descent, lineage.
2.
Inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline.  Synonyms: ancestry, derivation, lineage.






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"Filiation" Quotes from Famous Books



... creative reason. From the initiative of scientific astronomy, when the early Greek geometers referred the apparent diurnal movements to geometrical laws, to the creation of the nebular hypothesis, the logical filiation of the leading astronomical conceptions obeys corresponding tidal movements in humanity. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various

... and air of grandeur—a trace, or rather a memory, of the grand races that dominated the world. But his general aspect was one of pitiable degeneration, and it was difficult to discover the noble and heroic filiation in the brutality of the present. He resembled Don Cayetano's great men as the mule ...
— Dona Perfecta • B. Perez Galdos

... told him, I was sorry I could not stop, being rather too late to attend an appeal of the Duke of Hamilton against Douglas. 'I thought,' said he, 'their contest had been over long ago.' I answered, 'The contest concerning Douglas's filiation was over long ago; but the contest now is, who shall have the estate.' Then, assuming the air of 'an antient sage philosopher', I proceeded thus: 'Were I to PREDICATE concerning him, I should say, the contest formerly was, What IS he? The contest now is, What HAS he?' 'Right,' ...
— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell



Words linked to "Filiation" :   purebred, pedigree, origin, hereditary pattern, filiate, extraction, unilateral descent, relationship, family relationship, bilateral descent, kinship, descent, bloodline, inheritance, crossbred



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