sonship

English

Etymology

From son + -ship.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsʌnʃɪp/

Noun

sonship (plural sonships)

  1. The position or state of being a son.
    • 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 7, page 118:
      "All of this is now gone by," adds the poet; but of the men of our own time Thrasybulus comes nearest to the old type of loyal sonship.
    • 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 89:
      Jesus' unusual conception and birth were by no means the chief ways in which the first Christians expressed their sense of his divine sonship.

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