storge

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  1. The strong instinctive affection of animals for their young; hence, the attachment of parents for children, or of children for parents; parental or filial love. [Rare and technical.] In the storge, or natural affections of divers animals to their young ones, … there appears in the parent manifest tokens of solicitousness, skill, and in some cases courage too. Boyle, Christian Virtuoso, pt. II. aph. viii. The innocence of infancy … is the cause of the love called storge. Swedenborg, Conjugial Love (trans.), § 395.

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  1. from Greek στοργή, natural love or affection, from στέργειν, love, as parents their children.
 

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