Sentence example with the word 'fatherhood'

fatherhood

affiliation, blood, cognation, consanguinity, fatherliness, kinship, matrisib, paternity, patrocliny, sibship

Definition n. the kinship relation between an offspring and the father

Last update: July 29, 2015


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Ceremonies of initiation are the means by which the alliance is established between the deity and the young man, when the latter enters upon the rights of manhood; and the supposed bond of kinship is thus regarded as an artificial union from the outset, so far as the individual is concerned, although Robertson Smith still maintains the theory of the fatherhood of the god, where it is a question of the origin of the totem-kin.   [Please select]

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Fatherhood, in the sense of conscious begetting, is unknown to man.   [Please select]

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The belief in the fatherhood of God implied a corresponding belief in the brotherhood of man.   [Please select]

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He rests, disarmed of fatherhood, having devised that mystical estate upon his son.   [Please select]

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Burke was feeling really quite keenly these days the solemnity and responsibility of fatherhood.   [Please select]

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The first instinct of fatherhood came to him, a thrilling, uplifting feeling.   [Please select]

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And love is comradeship and motherhood, and fatherhood and all dear kinship.   [Please select]

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