Definition of Filiations

1. filiation [n] - See also: filiation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Filiations

filfot
filfots
filgrastim
filial
filial duty
filial generation
filial life
filial lives
filial piety
filially
filiate
filiated
filiates
filiating
filiation
filiations (current term)
filibeg
filibegs
filibuster
filibusterable
filibustered
filibusterer
filibusterers
filibustering
filibusterism
filibusters
filical
filicane
filicic
filicidal

Literary usage of Filiations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"If there were' such truths they would be, he says, " legitimate filiations" of the definitions. They would be involved in the defi- ..."

2. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"If there were such truths they would be, he says, " legitimate filiations" of the definitions. They would be involved in the defi- ..."

3. The Novelist's Magazine (1786)
"From you, my love, I look for con- gr filiations; and cun only in n-turn wilh you as happy a lot as that of your CECILIA. LETTER XLIX. MR. ..."

4. A Restoration of the Ancient Modes of Bestowing Names on the Rivers, Hills by Gilbert Dyer (1805)
"... but their great natural filiations and features. But to return. In naming an ifland the term water is generally mentioned. ..."

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