filial

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Outside these phases of a governing prepossession--filial, conjugal, maternal--she knew nothing, felt nothing, and could see nothing Low, at first, had brooded over her with an almost ferocious tenderness.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter: filial respect.
  2. adjective Having or assuming the relationship of child or offspring to parent.
  3. adjective Genetics Of or relating to a generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation.

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  • Genealogy refers to the collection of names that are related to the family by either blood or marriage (including their dates and places of birth, death and weddings); it is, in essence a basic framework of blood or lego-filial relationships within the clan. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Love beyond marital, filial, national, love that casts a widening pool of light, love with no need to pre-empt grievance. —  Democracy Now!
  • Shun, the super-filial mythic sage king (aren't we all inspired by Shun?), but he did not have the personal familiarity of the father-son relationship, from the son's point of view, over time. —  The Useless Tree
  • Unless your children are uniquely filial, paragons of devotion, by the time they are old enough to troll the Internet for likely mates, they'll be paying about as much attention to your Jewish hopes and prayers as they will to the Jonas Brothers.
  • What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. —  My Left Wing - Front Page
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin fīliālis, from Latin fīlius, son; see dhē(i)- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French filial = Provencal Spanish Portuguese filial = Italian filiale, from Late Latin filialis, of a son or daughter, from filius, a son, feminine filia, a daughter; perhaps orig. (like English son, q. v.) ‘one born,’ from √ *fe, *fev, bear, produce, in fetus, offspring, fecundus, fruitful, femina, woman, etc.: see fetus, fecund, female, etc.
 

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