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n. The state of being a father; fatherhood.

n. Descent on a father's side; paternal descent.

n. Authorship; origin.

adj. of or relating to a lawsuit brought by a woman attempting to establish that a particular man is the father of her child and so must provide the child with financial support: paternity case; paternity suit.

n. fatherhood, being a father

n. parental descent from a father

n. legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child

n. authorship

n. The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship.

n. Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage.

n. Origin; authorship.

n. Fathership; fatherhood; the relation of a father to his offspring.

n. Derivation from a father: as, the child's paternity is unknown. Hence Origin; authorship.

n. the state of being a father

n. the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing

n. the kinship relation between an offspring and the father

"Consultant surgeon Dr Dafydd Woodruff (so I guess we must call him Mr not Dr) finds himself embroiled in paternity allegations (twins no less) all stemming from a locum he did as a young doctor in Moose Creek way out in the backwoods of Canada."

state    creation    origination    instauration    initiation    foundation    founding    innovation    introduction    institution   

maternity   

paternity suit    paternity leave    paternity test   

fathership    fatherhood    origin    authorship    sireship    descent   

fraternity    maternity   

home-making    overlordship    crystallinity    vassalage    immunoreactivity