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Meanings of filiation in English
Portuguese
ascendência Catalan
ascendència The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors.
Usage of filiation in English
1
Therefore neither does it make any real distinction of paternity and filiation.
2
Therefore paternity and filiation in God, consequent upon generation, are only logical relations.
3
But filiation presupposes nativity; for the Son is so called because He is born.
4
Thus paternity and filiation are real relations in God.
5
Therefore, there are Five notions in God: "innascibility," "paternity," "filiation," "common spiration," and "procession."
6
For the relation of lord and father must differ according to the difference of filiation and servitude.
7
But human nature can nowise be the subject of filiation, because this relation regards directly the person.
8
For nativity is the cause of filiation.
9
Whence the Master says that "generation and nativity in other words are paternity and filiation" (Sent.
10
The filiation was indeed quite traceable.
11
Wherefore there can be but one subsistent filiation in God: just as there could be but one subsistent whiteness.
12
One cannot love a group of consequences, even supposing that the filiation could be distinctly presented to the mind.
13
Presently some materialistic bias swings them in a moment of intellectual carelessness back to the idea of sexual filiation.
14
The sequence analysis of several independent clones shows some degree of intraclonal diversity, suggesting the existence of a clonal filiation.
15
But when we come to consider the relations among those Western documents themselves, no regular descent or filiation seems traceable.
16
If the mere circumstance of filiation and descent creates no debt, it however is the principle of a very close connection.
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Filiation through the time