Filial is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FILIAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• pertaining to a son or daughter
• relating to or due from a son or daughter
• denoting the offspring of a cross.
• of or befitting a son or daughter
• 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.
• designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation
• relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring

Words related to FILIAL

filially14 filialness13 filialnesses15

Words that contain FILIAL

filially14 unfilial11 nonfilial12 filialness13 unfilially16 filialnesses15

How to use FILIAL in a sentence

• There was a glory in his rest not reflected from her filial love, but from the all-availing love of Christ.
• Nevertheless, such an act of filial devotion may well have occurred on the part of a woman.
• Indeed, if we except some very pleasing images of paternal tenderness and filial duty, there is scarcely any thing soft or humane in Mr.
• Ragnar received him with the greatest honour, because, while the unnatural war had raged its fiercest, he had behaved with the most entire filial respect.
• At the sight of this man, filial affection, rage, and despair got so far the better of his reason, that he fell furiously on the priest, and stabbed him to the heart.
• With the utmost attention of filial tenderness He committed His aged mother to the care of His beloved disciple.
• Politics, religion, literature, government, all rest upon the broad principle of filial piety.
• But supposing she had been just a shade less brave, supposing her filial obedience had weighed an ounce heavier? Then he would never have known anything about it.
• Your manner has not been the most filial toward me, but I will not reproach you for that.
• Her husband noticed, and thought it was the expression of a deep filial attachment which he had never suspected.
• Her filial duty was performed to her own entire satisfaction when she had kissed her hand to the Prince.
• They are fitted by their filial attributes to commune with Him in praise and love.
• If you wore your family hat from some filial respect, it was, in part, piety.
• Joseph is in perplexity between his filial respect and his solicitude for his first-born.
• The younger man pressed its broad palm with almost filial veneration.
• But the noblest testimony he gave of his filial regard to the memory of his poetical father, Mr.
• Charlton was not conscious of anything but a filial grief.
• She observed at this juncture several instances between us both of filial duty and paternal affection.
• This peculiar development of filial reverence and affection among the Chinese is a hopeful feature of their national life.
• Accordingly with the expectation of combining filial duty and business, I took Edwards with me and picked up the major at his home, and the trio of us journeyed eastward.
• Filial piety is a virtue to which much should be forgiven.
• I hope you have the bump of veneration strong, Japhet, and plenty of filial duty, or you will be kicked out of the house in a week.
• When John finds himself alone with the parent for whom he has ever felt the greatest respect without deep filial affection, he grows anxious again.
• She had saved his character for filial duty by going where he would little have thought of placing her, and awaiting his arrival, as her pride impelled her to do.

Similar words containing FILI without suffix al

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