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paternity 音標拼音: [pət'ɚnɪti] n. 父道,父權,父子關系 父道,父權,父子關系 paternity n 1: the state of being a father; " tests were conducted to determine paternity" 2: the kinship relation between an offspring and the father [ synonym: { fatherhood}, { paternity}] 3: the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing; " the authorship of the theory is disputed" [ synonym: { authorship}, { paternity}] Paternity \ Pa* ter" ni* ty\, n. [ L. paternitas: cf. F. paternit[' e]. See { Paternal}.] 1. The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity. [ 1913 Webster] The world, while it had scarcity of people, underwent no other dominion than paternity and eldership. -- Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage; as, the paternity of a child. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Origin; authorship. [ 1913 Webster] The paternity of these novels was . . . disputed. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] 49 Moby Thesaurus words for " paternity": affiliation, agnation, alliance, ancestry, blood, blood relationship, brotherhood, brothership, cognation, common ancestry, common descent, connection, consanguinity, cousinhood, cousinship, descent, enation, extraction, family, fatherhood, fatherliness, filiation, fraternity, heritage, kindred, kinship, line, lineage, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, parentage, paternalness, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relation, relationship, sibship, sisterhood, sistership, stock, strain, ties of blood
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