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/əfˌɪliˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Affiliation n.

Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

(Law) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.

Connection in the way of descent.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Affiliation" Quotes from Famous Books

... scion of one of the oldest and wealthiest families in the city, and he has already made his mark in the political field. He has been a Congressman, and his admirers are talking of giving him the next party nomination—not my party (so you see that my partiality does not proceed from political affiliation)—for Governor. He is altogether a delightful young man; and as ...

— The Opinions of a Philosopher • Robert Grant

... numbers were shouted, finally to brush them all aside and desert the game. His hatred of the Rodaines had grown to a point where he could enjoy nothing with which they were connected, where he despised everything with which they had the remotest affiliation,—excepting, of course, one person. And as he rose, Fairchild saw that she was just entering ...

— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper

... great Gloucester—without substantial assistance and cooperation of others of the Nobility. Nor was it easy to fix upon these confederates. The old, pronounced Lancastrian lords were either dead or in exile, and there was little else than general family relationship or former family affiliation, that could guide the judgment. And the session was long and tiresome and not particularly satisfactory, for of all the names gone over, only the Marquis of Dorset and the Courtneys of Exeter seemed likely traitors, and yet it was very certain ...

— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott

... of Germany, of which, without knowing them, we have all heard, seem, when we follow them up, like rivers, to originate in some sort of affiliation to those famous clubs of the 'illumines' and the freemasons which made so much stir in France at the close of the eighteenth century. At the time of the revolution of '89 these different philosophical, political, and religious sects ...

— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... Commission was not warranted by its rules, and did not deprive the appointee of his title to the office. In Christoffel v. United States[171] a sharply divided Court upset a conviction for perjury in the district courts of one who had denied under oath before a House Committee any affiliation with Communism. The reversal was based on the ground that inasmuch as a quorum of the Committee, while present at the outset, was not present at the time of the alleged perjury, testimony before it was not before a "competent tribunal" within the sense of the District of Columbia Code.[172] ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

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