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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
filiation /ˌfɪlɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n/

▶noun

1 the fact of being the child of a particular parent or parents.

2 the relation of one thing to another from which it is derived or descended.

– origin ME: from Fr., from eccles. L. and med. L. filiatio(n-), from L. filius ‘son’, filia ‘daughter’.

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