affiliation, blood, cognation, consanguinity, enation, fatherliness, kindred, maternity, matrocliny, patrilineage, propinquity, sisterhood, ties of blood
Definitionn. the state of being a father
Last update: October 9, 2015
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He accepted paternity of the orphaned boy. [Please select]
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This increased his anxiety to temporize, which he did with signal success for more than two years, making ' The grave doubt as to the paternity of Matthew involved a doubt whether the great earl of Tyrone and his equally famous nephew Owen Roe had in fact any O'Neill blood in their veins. [Please select]
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"Lavater would have said I lack the bump of paternity." [Please select]
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Paternity may be a legal fiction. [Please select]
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That gave Finn the most piercing thrill of paternity he had felt up till this time. [Please select]
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Paternity, among dogs, is, from the very first, no tie at all. [Please select]
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So Mickey shouldered the duties of paternity, and began thinking for his child, his little, neglected, bad, sick child. [Please select]
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The true paternity of her children it was impossible to ascertain. [Please select]
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She bore several children before her thirtieth year, and it is very certain that a grave doubt exists as to their paternity. [Please select]
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If he questioned the paternity of their eldest son he might take measures to imprison Catharine or even to destroy her. [Please select]
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Consequently, all popular theories of the origin of marriage and the family based on the assumption of conscious paternity are outlawed. [Please select]
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