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FILIAL LOVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does filial love mean?
• FILIAL LOVE (noun)
The noun FILIAL LOVE has 1 sense:
1. the love of a child for a parent
Familiarity information: FILIAL LOVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The love of a child for a parent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("filial love" is a kind of...):
love (a strong positive emotion of regard and affection)
Context examples
When I mingled with other families I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was, and gratitude assisted the development of filial love.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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