Paternity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PATERNITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• fatherhood
• paternal origin
• fact or state of being a father
• The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.
• Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage; as, the paternity of a child.
• Origin; authorship.
• the state of being a father
• the kinship relation between an offspring and the father
• the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing
• (especially in legal contexts) the state of being someone's father
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being a father

Words related to PATERNITY

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How to use PATERNITY in a sentence

• Leif acknowledged his paternity, and some men will have it that this Thorgils came to Iceland in the summer before the Froda-wonder.
• If our principles are right, and we believe they are, we would be unworthy of our noble paternity if we were to shrink from the issue.
• Her travels had spoken the restlessness of flight in search of oblivion to the very fact of his paternity.
• Why this fact should have been lost sight of I cannot tell, but I am glad to be able to bring forward the proof of the paternity of this brilliant discovery even at this late day.
• Kemp may have been actuated, by some unknown means, to remove the paternity from the right to the wrong person.
• Their morals are farther characterized by the fact that descent is in the female line, which is usually due to uncertain paternity.
• Taking the five or six most advanced countries of Europe and America, it is safe to say that the paternity is certain in ninety cases out of a hundred.
• Unlike the Spartan, the Athenian had a regard for paternity and genealogy, and the only way he knew to insure it was the Asiatic.
• They have not our selfishness of paternity, but find in the assumed relation of father all the pride and joy we take only with surety of our relationship.
• At any rate, no one seemed to have been sufficiently proud of it to lay claim to its paternity.
• In short, in this instance, your paternity renders you all the more proud from the fact that it is incontestable, my dear sir! REVELATIONS.
• We assure your Paternity that it will be a great service to God and to the holy apostolic see.
• The latter advise you that, in the missions conducted by your Paternity, the contents of the decree enclosed herewith should be observed and obeyed.
• If we know little about the paternity and maternity of eels, we know a great deal about their childhood and youth, or, to speak more eelishly, their grigginess and elverhood.
• Artistic paternity is as wholesome as physical paternity.
• May our Lord preserve your Paternity for many years.
• I commend myself to your Paternity and Blessedness, whom may the Lord Jesus preserve for ever.
• Maternity and paternity are met in the best manhood.
• Wherefore the paternity cannot differ specifically, since the acts of generation are specifically the same.
• Emile Zola is another literary father whose paternity grows dubious on examination.
• His very paternity was obscure, although the village of Gavrillac had long since dispelled the cloud of mystery that hung about it.
• The paternity of that choice bit of romance belongs to General Halleck, instead of General Pope.
• The stone called asbestos is not more unquenchable than the thirst of my paternity.
• Paternity is the most noble of all animal functions, but the animals have more courage and dignity than man in fulfilling it.
• The feeling of paternity is so deeply rooted in me that I would sooner lose my mitre than abandon my children.
• Even you, sternest of republicans, will, I think, be proud of the indomitable courage of Englishmen, and gladly refer to your old paternity.
• Inquiry into the paternity of the child is in some countries forbidden.
• Compelled to renounce the joys of a feeling all powerful within him, the doctor turned to benevolence as a substitute for his denied paternity.
• But Jackson, it was early ascertained, was not entitled to the doubtful honor of the paternity of these resolutions.
• Paternity is apt to be a very bewildered and often rather dramatic emotion.
• Even savage tribes designated the age at which their young men were permitted to assume paternity because feeble children were a drag upon their communal resources.
• The paternity of the article, the malice that prompted it, and the misrepresentations it contains are too obvious to require particular notice.
• As a copy of the rest of the reasons will accompany this, I do not choose to set them down here, lest I tire your very reverend Paternity, whose time is so fully occupied.
• I beseech your very reverend Paternity to receive him as one recommended, and favor him on any occasions that may arise.
• May our Lord protect your very reverend Paternity for many long years, for the good of His church, with many gifts from His divine favor.
• If she had a child I would be proclaimed its father, especially if I raised an issue, and tried to fix the paternity upon Lamborn.

Similar words containing PATERN without suffix ity

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