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Filial is an English word with synonyms like parental or relative. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Filial meaning

  1. Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.
  2. Respectful of the duties and attitudes of sons or daughters toward their parents.
  3. Of a generation or generations descending from a specific previous one.

Synonyms of Filial

Using Filial

  • The main meaning on this page is: Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter. | Respectful of the duties and attitudes of sons or daughters toward their parents. | Of a generation or generations descending from a specific previous one.
  • Useful related words include: parental, relative, relation, daughterly.
  • In the example corpus, filial often appears in combinations such as: filial piety, filial duty, of filial.

Context around Filial

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Filial

  • In this selection, "filial" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, four, philosophy, authoritarian, piety, duty and exemplars stand out and add context to how "filial" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include churches like filial priest or and concept of filial piety which. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "filial" sits close to words such as abominable, abstracts and aceh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with filial

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Fear is used to express a Filial or a slavish passion. (11 words)

Kendall accepts his fate with the docile, filial devotion he has displayed all series. (14 words)

If the adopted child failed to carry out the filial duty, the contract was annulled in the law courts. (19 words)

Yii said the purpose of holding the Parents Day event was to remind the younger generation of the need to fulfil their filial duty – in that every individual ought to treat their parents well by caring for them on a daily basis. (42 words)

The term can also be applied to general obedience, and is used in religious titles in Christian Churches, like "filial priest" or "filial vicar" for a cleric whose church is subordinate to a larger parish. (35 words)

Confucian law, which helped define personal relationships and the code of ethics of the warrior class required that a woman show subservience to her husband, filial piety to her parents, and care to the children. (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

Filial piety Fourteenth of The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars main In Confucian philosophy, filial piety (Zh, xiào) is a virtue of respect for one's parents and ancestors.

The term can also be applied to general obedience, and is used in religious titles in Christian Churches, like "filial priest" or "filial vicar" for a cleric whose church is subordinate to a larger parish.

The reluctance to accept old-age homes in Bhutan stems from our deeply rooted values of filial piety and respect for our elders.

As per a study, authoritarian filial piety (AFP) significantly influences various facets of adolescent development, including well-being, academic motivation and moral behavior.

Abba Kyari rode on the series of gaps in the presidency to insinuate himself in the power politics that played on his filial relationship with the president.

Channeling that into the music, he explained, was about trying to engage beyond the immediate concerns of his romantic or filial relationships, the stuff that powered the previous albums.

Kendall accepts his fate with the docile, filial devotion he has displayed all series.

Yii said the purpose of holding the Parents Day event was to remind the younger generation of the need to fulfil their filial duty – in that every individual ought to treat their parents well by caring for them on a daily basis.

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And the child of a concubine had to show filial duty to two women, their biological mother and legal mother–the wife of their father.

Book of Song Reign of Emperor Xiaowu and Qianfei Liu Shao's assassination of his father raised indignation across the empire, as it disobeyed one of Confucianism's fundamental principles, that of filial piety.

Confucianism was largely a moral system emphasizing the values of humaneness, righteousness, and filial duty, and so conceived De in terms of obedience to rigorously defined and codified social rules.

Confucian law, which helped define personal relationships and the code of ethics of the warrior class required that a woman show subservience to her husband, filial piety to her parents, and care to the children.

Everyone knows that if a man doesn't hold filial piety toward his own parents he would also neglect his duties toward his lord.

Fear is used to express a Filial or a slavish passion.

Filial duty and a national emergency, in which there was no place for law-abiding conduct, had driven him to civil war—and this can neither be initiated nor maintained by decent methods.

Guanxi is also based in concepts like loyalty, dedication, reciprocity, and trust, which help to develop non-familial interpersonal relations, while mirroring the concept of filial piety, which is used to ground familial relations.

He also ordered his followers to put forth great effort in studying the military classics, especially those related to loyalty and filial piety.

If the adopted child failed to carry out the filial duty, the contract was annulled in the law courts.

In each of these cases, one trait is dominant and all the offspring, or Filial-1 (abbreviated F 1 ) generation, showed the dominant trait.

In his view, Hermia lacks in filial obedience and acts as if devoid of conscience when she runs away with Lysander.

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Common combinations with filial

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "filial" in a sentence?
An example: "Filial piety Fourteenth of The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars main In Confucian philosophy, filial piety (Zh, xiào) is a virtue of respect for one's parents and ancestors." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "filial" from authentic English texts.
What does "filial" mean?
Filial means: Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.
What are synonyms of "filial"?
Common synonyms of "filial" include: parental, relative, relation, daughterly.
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