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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 parentplay

  Familiarity information: FILIAL LOVE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FILIAL LOVE (noun)


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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