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Webster 1913 Edition

Filiety

Fi-li′e-ty

,

Noun.

[L.

filietas

.]

The relation of a son to a father; sonship; – the correlative of paternity.

J. S. Mill.

Definition 2025

filiety

filiety

English

Noun

filiety ‎(uncountable)

(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.

Synonyms

filiation

See also

paternity