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sonship

American  
[suhn-ship] / ˈsʌnˌʃɪp /

noun

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


Etymology

Origin of sonship

First recorded in 1580–90; son + -ship

Example Sentences

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More broadly, Sobrino espouses an evolutionary view of Jesus' sonship.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was ignorant of the meaning of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the sonship of Christ.

From Time Magazine Archive

No one need fear that natural sonship to God makes it less imperative that we should become good sons.

From What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Swain, Richard la Rue

The Thirty-nine Articles took essentially Lutheran ground in treating of baptism, recognising it as a vehicle of regeneration and divine sonship, and the tractarians laid uncommonly great stress upon this article.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

Sons of God, wear with joy the marks of sonship!

From Misread Passage of Scriptures by Brown, James Baldwin