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sonship

[ suhn-ship ]

noun

  1. the state, fact, or relation of being a son.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sonship1

First recorded in 1580–90; son + -ship

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Example Sentences

He must trust to his human merits, and not miracles, for his Sonship is of no value in this conflict.

If a man has taken a young child ‘from his waters’ to sonship, and has reared him up, no one has any claim against that nursling.

What the precise nature of this adopted "sonship-in-arms" may have been we are not able to say.

He had only one dogma, his own divine Sonship and the divinity of his mission.

And it is precisely in this that the principle of "Sonship" consists.

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