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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

... have seemed at most an extreme result of curious speculation. The truth appears to be that modern International Law, undoubted as is its descent from Roman law, is only connected with it by an irregular filiation. The early modern interpreters of the jurisprudence of Rome, misconceiving the meaning of Jus Gentium, assumed without hesitation that the Romans had bequeathed to them a system of rules for the adjustment of international transactions. This "Law of Nations" was at first an authority ...

— Ancient Law - Its Connection to the History of Early Society • Sir Henry James Sumner Maine

... seashore street that there was a ship on Tamissa reef. That crowd interpreted the appearance correctly. Its cause was beyond their penetration, for who could associate a girl nine hundred miles away with the stranding of a ship on Tamissa reef, or look for the remote filiation of that event in the psychology of at least three people, even if one of them, Lieutenant Heemskirk, was at that very moment passing amongst them on his way to make his ...

— 'Twixt Land & Sea • Joseph Conrad

... present purpose, however, filiation, origin, and such-like things are of much less importance than the actual stories that get themselves told to satisfy that demand which in due time is to produce the supply of the novel. Of these the two oldest, as regards the actual forms ...

— The English Novel • George Saintsbury

... explain the laws or manner of evolution. Strictly speaking, only the theory of selection should be called Darwinism, which was established in 1859. The theory of descent, or transmutation theory, or doctrine of filiation, should properly be called Lamarckism, who for the first time worked out the theory of descent as an independent scientific theory of the first order, and as the philosophical foundation of the whole ...

— Was Man Created? • Henry A. Mott

... the advent of a science being determined by increasing generality as by increasing speciality. (2) He holds that any grouping of the sciences in a succession gives a radically wrong idea of their genesis and their interdependence; no true filiation exists; no science develops itself in isolation; no one is independent, either logically or historically. M. Littre, by far the most eminent of the scientific followers of Comte, concedes a certain force to Mr. Spencer's objections, ...

— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) - Essay 10: Auguste Comte • John Morley

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