filial
Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.
Bearing the relation of a child.
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A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written.
I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection.
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.
This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.
Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
Three things demonstrate a lack of filial piety.