We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of filial in English
Usage of filial in English
1
He was largely gifted with filial piety, which is everything in China.
2
There is something characteristic in this mode of filial duty and honor.
3
This universal, eternal, filial relation is the only universal and eternal refuge.
4
I am quite sure that you are backward in no filial duty.
5
According to Diodorus of Sicily, embalmment originated in filial piety and respect.
6
We spare the reader a shocking scene of filial and parental reproaches.
7
In this interesting temperance story, filial love and devotion are strongly exhibited.
8
That He may reward your filial Piety is the ardent Prayer of
9
In a word, my filial life with her seemed at an end.
10
His filial sorrow silenced for a moment the anguish of his love.
11
His pious optimism increased and became touched with something mystic and filial.
12
But that filial piety is weakening as younger generations migrate to cities.
13
The strongest of all securities for filial obedience- asenseof dependence-isdestroyed.
14
This new method of expressing filial affection seemed to interest Mr. Gallilee.
15
No wonder that Confucius found filial piety beyond his powers of definition.
16
Not that he had been the only one operating on filial instinct.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Filial through the time
Filial across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare