Both Uses of
filial
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- 'What a pleasant thing filial piety is to contemplate!†
Chpt 6 *
- 'If you were a man to whom I could appeal with any hope of touching his compassion or humanity,' said Nicholas, 'I would urge upon you to remember the helplessness, the innocence, the youth, of this lady; her worth and beauty, her filial excellence, and last, and more than all, as concerning you more nearly, the appeal she has made to your mercy and your manly feeling.†
Chpt 53
Definition:
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(filial) relating to the relationship of children to their parents