sonship
[ suhn-ship ]
noun
the state, fact, or relation of being a son.
Origin of sonship
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How to use sonship in a sentence
He must trust to his human merits, and not miracles, for his sonship is of no value in this conflict.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature | Moncure Daniel ConwayIf 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.
The Oldest Code of Laws in the World | Hammurabi, King of BabylonWhat the precise nature of this adopted "sonship-in-arms" may have been we are not able to say.
Theodoric the Goth | Thomas HodgkinHe 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.
The Hidden Power | Thomas Troward
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