Filial

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  • adjective. Of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter.
  • adjective. Having or assuming the relationship of child or offspring to parent.
  • adjective. Of or relating to a generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to or due from a child in relation to the parents.
  • Bearing the relation of a child.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents.
  • adjective. Bearing the relation of a child.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.
  • adjective. Respectful of the duties and attitudes of a son or daughter toward their parents.
  • adjective. Of a generation or generations descending from a specific previous one.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation
  • adjective. relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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