Synonyms:
filial
Meaning: relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring; "filial respect"
Synonyms:
filial
Meaning: designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation
Usage examples
It was filial tenderness that gave the name.
The family thus housed and sheltered, one more bit of filial work remained for Abraham before assuming his virile independence.
He said, and on his Son with Rayes direct Shon full, he all his Father full exprest Ineffably into his face receiv'd, And thus the filial Godhead answering spake.
That I am very safe and happy in the hands of my heavenly Father--and those of the kind earthly one He has given me," she added in a whisper, putting her arms about his neck, and looking in his face with eyes brimful of filial tenderness and love.
Their eyes of compassion, of real sentimental affection, will be involuntarily extended after them, in their greatest excesses of iniquity; and those fine filaments of consanguinity, which gently entwine themselves around the heart where filial love and parental care is equal, will be lengthened, and enlarged to cords seemingly of sufficient strength to reach and reclaim the wanderer.