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noun

Filiation n.

The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father. "The relation of paternity and filiation."

(Law) The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.

Descent from, or as if from, a parent; relationship like that of a son; as, to determine the filiation of a language.

One that is derived from a parent or source; an offshoot; as, the filiations are from a common stock.

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Etymology of 'Filiation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Filiation" Quotes from Famous Books

... eternal outgoing of intelligence ([Greek: nous]) from being ([Greek:to on]), with the will as an accompaniment, but not from it as a cause,—in order, though not necessarily in time, precedent. This is true filiation. ...

— The Literary Remains Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Edited By Henry Nelson Coleridge

... had proceeded out of Lucifer, and was forced to follow him—sprang all that we perceive under the form of matter, which we figure to ourselves as heavy, solid, and dark, but which, since it is descended, if not even immediately, yet by filiation, from the Divine Being, is just as unlimited, powerful, and eternal as its sire and grandsire. Now, the whole mischief, if we may call it so, having arisen merely through the one-sided direction of Lucifer, the ...

— Autobiography • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

... Love must have an object, and from eternity the Father was not alone. The only-begotten and well-beloved Son was with Him, dwelt in His bosom, and shared His glory. The Filiation or Sonship of our Lord follows the statement of His proper name and the declaration of His Messiahship. It is expressed in the designation, "Only Son," which is His divine name, peculiar to Himself, incommunicable to any other being. He is the Son of the Father, ...

— Exposition of the Apostles Creed • James Dodds