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Definition

relating to the relationship of children to their parents

She tried to restrain her mother, so far as filial respect would allow.

filial = child-to-parent

She knew neither filial nor romantic love.

filial = parent/child

Filial loyalty and love are cherished aspects of traditional Japanese culture.

filial = child-to-parent

An F1 hybrid is the first filial generation of seeds/plants or animal offspring resulting from a cross mating of distinctly different parental types.

filial = parent-to-child

None of them proved able to learn the alphabet beyond the letter B. They accepted everything that they were told about the Rebellion and the principles of Animalism, especially from Clover, for whom they had an almost filial respect; but it was doubtful whether they understood very much of it.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

filial = child-to-parent

a mixture of filial love and Oedipal rage
But Archer, meeting his eyes, saw the filial light under their banter.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
His bowed head, and her angel-face and filial duty, derived a more pathetic meaning from it than they had had before.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
But what if there were something of the sort, a feeling of religious awe, if not of filial respect?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
There was something sublime, as well as much that was supremely touching, in this act of filial piety.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
In the discharge of gentle offices and kind filial duties, this simple creature shone most especially.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
But these were acts committed out of too much filial feeling, not too little.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
I know that the awful accusation struck not so much at my filial love as at the foundation of my new existence.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Everyone was visibly moved by this show of filial devotion, except one man who uttered, "Why don't that boy buy his own flowers?"
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
What a shame of your mother, never to waken your filial regard for me!
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
Her husband noticed, and thought it was the expression of a deep filial attachment which he had never suspected.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
It was such a fake gesture to go along with her fake feelings of moral and filial commitment that she knew right away how foolish she seemed.
Toni Morrison -- Song of Solomon
Babbitt answered modestly, almost filially.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
Dad blocked the door and filially, finally turned the knob that said "Start."
Christopher Paul Curtis -- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
We pay a filial respect to the person of the Holy Father, but Rome has no authority here.
Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop

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