sonship

[ suhn-ship ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of sonship¹

First recorded in 1580–90; son + -ship

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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

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

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

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