filiation
noun
Examples of filiation in a Sentence
Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2011
Krug’s academic research is focussed on unhomed peoples whose identities are not reducible to state or tribal filiation—indigenous peoples turned Africans turned slaves turned fugitives who forged a new sense of themselves out of thin air.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2020
Part of what the book achieves is a lucid rendering of the complex web of filiations and affiliations that connected not only these three central figures but also others in their orbit and in their disparate, often far-flung worlds.
—Neel Mukherjee, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
But his response to Le Pen’s comment about his childlessness was something more earnest and full-throated, an impassioned rejection of the decrepit social order that limits filiation to a man and his seed.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 5 May 2017
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“Filiation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/filiation. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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filiation
noun
LeBlanc v. LeBlanc, 427 So.2d 1361 (1986)Note: The Louisiana Supreme Court has held that children not entitled to legitimate filiation to the alleged parent, or not legitimated or formally acknowledged by the alleged parent, may establish filiation in a filiation proceeding. This has led to some instances where the legitimate children of one father have been allowed to prove filiation to another father. Such an action does not make the children illegitimate but does create a status of dual paternity.
Idaho CodeLate Latin filiatio relationship of a son and father, from Latin filius son
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