Sample sentences for PATERNITY

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Definition

the state of being a father; or related to fatherhood

Tests were conducted to determine paternity.

He is filing a paternity lawsuit to determine if he is the father.
I could not acknowledge the paternity to the world, but I gave him the best of educations, and since he came to manhood I have kept him near my person.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Return of Sherlock Holmes
First Brendan denied paternity.
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
It would be convenient in any discussion of the paternity of Sibyl's alleged child, but it seemed to hurt the Boss's pride.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
Paternity had made him suspicious.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
Nor did he allow anyone to doubt the legitimate paternity of the count.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
Rather than glorying in iranian politics, he took pride in paternity.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
The old man talked but little, and, at times, he fixed on her eyes overflowing with an ineffable paternity.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
The mockery was, that he should have no sooner taught a girl to claim the shelter of his paternity than he discovered her to have no kinship with him.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
There were water rights, boundary disputes, astray arguments, domestic relations, paternity matters—all to be settled without force of arms.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
But only two people know the truth about Hunter's paternity-Chase and me.
Ellen Hopkins -- Glass
Our souls are like those orphans whose unwedded mothers die in bearing them: the secret of our paternity lies in their grave, and we must there to learn it.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
He shrugged and Wendy saw Danny's paternity in the gesture; Jack could hardly have done it better himself.
Stephen King -- The Shining
Their father, she felt sure, was a man named Odell Watkins, but he declined the offer from the Department of Children's Services to acknowledge his paternity.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
Paternity is not always as described," Bram remarked, his gaze rising to meet Max's.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
Heathcliff smiled again, as if it were rather too bold a jest to attribute the paternity of that bear to him.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
So the central theme of the novel is not the stocking of Montana but unacknowledged paternity.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
Lavater would have said I lack the bump of paternity.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
What is paternity to the gods, who inhabit a succession of bodies, begetting scores of offspring by others who also change bodies four or five times a century?
Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light

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