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filial
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Definition:of a child, regarding affection
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While her mother was attacking her father, she tried to restrain her mother, so far as filial reverence would allow.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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By the strange warping of morality often caused by controversial exigencies, this want of filial reverence has been triumphantly pointed out by Christian divines;
Annie Besant. My Path to Atheism (1885)
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What a shame of your mother, never to waken your filial regard for me! You are my son, then, I’ll tell you; and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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At the sentiment behind this filial act nobody could cavil, for a policeman's best friend is admittedly his mother,
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.65 (1971)
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"Why, indeed; he does seem to have had some filial scruples on that head, as you will hear."
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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