Both Uses of
filial
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He had known neither the pleasure of companionship with others nor the vigour of rude male health nor filial piety.†
Chpt 2 *
- He had tried to build a break-water of order and elegance against the sordid tide of life without him and to dam up, by rules of conduct and active interest and new filial relations, the powerful recurrence of the tides within him.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(filial) relating to the relationship of children to their parents