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Pronunciation: [fˌɪlɪˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

Filiation is a term that refers to the relationship between a child and their biological parents. Synonyms for filiation include parenthood, parentage, descent, and lineage. Parenthood emphasizes the role of the parent in the relationship, while parentage focuses on the biological connection. Descent and lineage both refer to the ancestral line of the child. Other synonyms include paternity, maternity, kinship, and family ties. These terms often have legal implications, as they are used in matters such as inheritance and child custody. Regardless of the word used, filiation remains an important aspect of human relationships and the formation of families.

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Usage examples for Filiation

Upon this unsteady throne is the luckless wight, whom they design to initiate, compelled to 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.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
When they had created a number of such ideal beings, they tried to find out some relation: and thence proceeded to determine the parentage, and filiation of each, just as fancy directed.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant
Thus the concrete like has its abstract likeness; the concretes, father and son, have, or might have, the abstracts, paternity, and filiety, or filiation.
"A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)"
John Stuart Mill

Famous quotes with Filiation

  • The skein of human continuity must often become this tenuous across the centuries (hanging by a thread, in the old cliché), but the circle remains unbroken if I can touch the ink of Lavoisier's own name, written by his own hand. A candle of light, nurtured by the oxygen of his greatest discovery, never burns out if we cherish the intellectual heritage of such unfractured filiation across the ages. We may also wish to contemplate the genuine physical thread of nucleic acid that ties each of us to the common bacterial ancestor of all living creatures, born on Lavoisier's more than 3.5 billion years ago—and never since disrupted, not for one moment, not for one generation. Such a legacy must be worth preserving from all the guillotines of our folly.
    Stephen Jay Gould

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