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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 MacDonald, George

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 Arnim, Elizabeth von