Filial means: Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter. Related words include parental or relative. Below you'll find 20 example sentences showing how to use Filial in practice.
Filial in a sentence
Filial meaning
- 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.
Example sentences (20)
In his view, Hermia lacks in filial obedience and acts as if devoid of conscience when she runs away with Lysander.
Many Confucians also realized that loyalty and filial piety have the potential of coming into conflict with one another.
Pyramus and Thisbe also lack in filial obedience, since they "woo by moonlight" behind their parents' backs.
In other cultures, the purpose of ancestor veneration is not to ask for favors but to do one's filial duty.
In the time of Confucius (5th century BCE), the Chinese grew out their hair and often tied it, as a symbol of filial piety.
Tacitus, The Annals, I 9 According to the second opposing opinion: filial duty and national crisis had been merely pretexts.
The opera depicted politically motivated murder, filial duty and love in conflict, tyrannicide and finally eternal damnation.
Everyone knows that if a man doesn't hold filial piety toward his own parents he would also neglect his duties toward his lord.
The reluctance to accept old-age homes in Bhutan stems from our deeply rooted values of filial piety and respect for our elders.
If the adopted child failed to carry out the filial duty, the contract was annulled in the law courts.
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.
In each of these cases, one trait is dominant and all the offspring, or Filial-1 (abbreviated F 1 ) generation, showed the dominant trait.
Kendall accepts his fate with the docile, filial devotion he has displayed all series.
He also ordered his followers to put forth great effort in studying the military classics, especially those related to loyalty and filial piety.
Murray reports that the only event of major consequence during Kenzō's reign had to do with the filial respect he showed for his murdered father.
The documents show the sagacity, filial piety, and work ethic of Yao, Shun, and Yu.
Like filial piety, loyalty was often subverted by the autocratic regimes in China.
These stories depict how children exercised their filial piety in the past.
It is forbidden to forget the great debt of kindness one owes to his master and ancestors and thereby make light of the virtues of loyalty and filial piety.
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.
Common combinations with filial
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- filial piety 17×
- filial duty 8×
- of filial 4×
- and filial 4×
- their filial 3×
- like filial 2×
- or filial 2×
- filial loyalty 2×
- the filial 2×
- in filial 2×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word filial. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.