filial
adjective
of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter.
filialness
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a word derived from
filial.
Example Sentences
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She made a great plunge into filialness and, swiftly blushing, picked up her mother-in-law's passive hand.
From The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim
Far more:—was he not bound in common humanity, not to say filialness, to doubt it?
From The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by George MacDonald
