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What does paternity mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word paternity? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. fatherhood, being a father
  2. parental descent from a father
  3. (law) legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child
  4. (figuratively) authorship
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Story-wise, this season progressed by taking the dangling paternity results from the previous season and turning them into a major arc.
Her husband, in turn, forfeits any paternity claims over children born subsequent to their sworn oaths.
Unplanned pregnancies are not new, nor uncommon, and only the unwise will pass judgment in matters of unexpected paternity.
The program has the expectation that young dads will legitimize their children by acknowledging paternity.
Well, with any luck, I hope they would prepare for paternity leave, actually.
Throughout the world, paternity leave has been recognized as an important means of reconciling the professional and familial lives of workers.

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