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• n  the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
• n  inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

• You cannot fail to associate this with Degas's own working methods, the sense of filiation and descent that would breathe through his work for the rest of his life, the past .

• descent
• line of descent
• lineage
• ancestry
• derivation

Quotes

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• Francisco in California Catholic Daily
  Opus Dei also emphasizes divine filiation, unity of life, prayer and sacrifice, charity, apostolate, and fidelity to the pope,said Catholic San Francisco.