NOUN
- the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
How To Use filiation In A Sentence
- The mostly German-speaking cantons, or provinces, are divided nearly equally between the two religious affiliations.
- Obj. 2: Further, filiation, which is said of a man as being the son of someone, his father or his mother, depends, in a way, on him: because the very being of a relation consists _in being referred to another; _ wherefore if one of two relatives be destroyed, the other is destroyed also. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
- The course is open to people of all nationalities and religious affiliations, and the minimum age is 15 years.
- As a affiliation in concept, hierarchy comprehended form category.
- Less a matter of choice than of male social identity, party affiliation passed from father to son. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
- They had an affiliation with mobsters, drug dealings, illegal profiteers, and more, where they would store money, risk-free and securely, for everyone.
- She was also a grand needle woman, a talent which rather curiously led to a change in her religious affiliations.
- A less rigid membership and more open selections will, of course, loosen party affiliation as well as broaden it. Times, Sunday Times
- Tracing the relationships between sources and the historical assessment of readings can be facilitated by stemmatic filiation.
- Socialist affiliations are recorded in the memoirs of the stone-mason Nadaud, the draughtsman Perdiguier and Suzanne Voilquin, who was a needlewoman.