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n. The condition or fact of being the child of a certain parent.

n. Law Judicial determination of paternity.

n. A line of descent; derivation.

n. The act or fact of forming a new branch, as of a society or language group.

n. The branch thus formed.

n. The condition of being a child of a specified parent

n. The ancestry or lineage shared by a group having the same bloodline

n. The determination of paternity

n. The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.

n. The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.

n. Descent from, or as if from, a parent; relationship like that of a son.

n. One that is derived from a parent or source; an offshoot.

n. The relation of a son or daughter to a parent: the correlative of paternity.

n. The establishment of a filial relation, specifically by adoption.

n. In law, the judicial determination of the paternity of a child, especially of a bastard; affiliation.

n. Any analogous close connection or relation.

n. An individual or group of individuals derived from one source or parent.

n. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

n. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

"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."

affiliation    offshoot   

matricide    putti    paternalism    plac    cooeperation