Etymology: < late Latin fīlietāt-em sonship, < fīlius son.
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= filiationn. 2.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > son > [noun] > ascription of sonship
filiation1659
affiliation1798
filiety1851
1851 J. S. MillSyst. Logic (ed. 3) I. i. ii. §7. 45 The concretes, father and son, have, or might have, the abstracts, paternity, and filiety, or filiation.
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