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    filiation


    1. The various degrees of difference between the languages of the same stock would have to be expressed by groups subordinate to groups; but the proper or even the only possible arrangement would still be genealogical; and this would be strictly natural, as it would connect together all languages, extinct and recent, by the closest affinities, and would give the filiation and origin of each tongue


    2. He finds himself obliged to weigh and investigate ten or twelve thousand words and diverse expressions, to note their origin, filiation and relationships, to rebuild on an original plan, his ideas and his whole intellect


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    Synonyms for "filiation"

    ancestry derivation filiation lineage descent line of descent

    "filiation" definitions

    the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors


    inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline