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Filiety

Fi-li′e-ty

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Noun.
[L.
filietas
.]
The relation of a son to a father; sonship; – the correlative of paternity.
J. S. Mill.

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filiety

filiety

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Noun

filiety (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The relation of a son to a father; sonship
    • 1843, John Stewart Mill, A System of Logic, vol. 1:
      The paternity of A and the filiety of B are not two facts, but two modes of expressing the same fact.

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