All 3 Uses of
filial
in
The Good Earth
- Have you no religion, no morals, that you are so lacking in filial conduct?†
Chpt 7 *
- When his uncle came again Wang Lung cried out, "Even filial piety will not feed my house!" and he sent his uncle empty away.†
Chpt 8
- It was more likely that he would be beaten for his unfilial conduct rather than his uncle suffer, and in the end he would go in fear of his life, for if the robbers heard of it, they would kill him for revenge.†
Chpt 23unfilial = not related to the relationship of children to parentsstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unfilial means not and reverses the meaning of filial. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definition:
relating to the relationship of children to their parents