The state of being someone's father.
Example sentencesExamples
- Fathership remained unchanged since there was never any inducement to supply the want of the legitimate father.
- The notion of God's fathership is also prominent in the Old Testament.
- He had no legal standing at this hearing, which Crowe pointed out to him, "unless you want to claim fathership of Callan".
- It is possible that the fathership of the child born to the woman who remarries before the expiration of this waiting period can come into question.
- The idea of spiritual fathership that these biblical passages suggest became a dominant theme among early Egyptian solitary monks.