paternity
paternity is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage; as, the paternity of a child.
- 2.Origin; authorship. The paternity of these novels was . . . disputed. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abba
- ancestor
- ancestral
- ancestry
- and
- anthropogeny
- anthropography
- anthropoid
- anthropology
- anthroposophy
- being
- birth
- body
- brother
- centenarian
- civic
- clan
- commonalty
- commonweal
- commonwealth
- community
- consanguinity
- cosmopolitan
- cosmopolite
- creation
- creature
- crone
- dad
- dam
- descent
- dotard
- earthling
- ethnography
- ethnology
- extraction
- family
- father
- fatherhood
- fathership
- fellow
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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