filial
IPA: fˈɪɫiʌɫ
adjective
- (not comparable) Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.
- (comparable) Respectful of the duties and attitudes of sons or daughters toward their parents.
- (genetics) Of a generation or generations descending from a specific previous one.
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Examples of "filial" in Sentences
- Fortunately, at least the Spanish Church has issued a nice communiqué in filial support of our great Benedict XVI.
- Again filial gratitude silenced all but itself, and sleep, the softest she had known for many months, soon gave to oblivion every care in
- Lady Mar gazed with a weird frown on the lovely form of Helen, as she wound her exquisitely turned arms around the earl in filial tenderness.
- As this dependence on the mother church may be of various degrees, the term filial church may have naturally more than one signification as to minor details.
- With never a hint of anything to fill the place of the much-discussed attribute we call filial instinct in the young of human kind, the black-and-gray pup conceived the greatest admiration for his father.
- 'Yes, Sir,' cried Eugenia, 'your kind task is now completed with your vanquished Eugenia! her thoughts, her occupations, her happiness, shall henceforth all be centred in filial gratitude and contentment.'
- When followed by l the history of f was like that of c and g: the result for all three was a palatalized l which soon began to be represented by ll (approximate to li in English "filial": flamma, Span. llama, clamare, Span. llamar, etc.).
- It is true that the subjected church does not lose its parochial rights, yet its dependence on the parish priest of another church and its administration by a vicar has led to its being included loosely under the designation filial church.
- Eleanor could not absent herself neither; she tried that; her father would have her there; and there was Mr. Carlisle, as much at home, and sharing with her in filial offices as a matter of rule, and associating with her as already one of the family.
- 'But, Sir! but my father!' cried Camilla, hanging over him, and losing in filial tenderness her personal distresses; 'if your manner of living is altered, and my dear mother returns home and sees you relinquishing any of your small, your temperate indulgencies, may it not yet more embitter her sufferings and her displeasure for the unhappy cause?
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