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fil·i·al

 (fĭl′ē-əl, fē′lē-)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter: filial respect.
2. Having or assuming the relationship of child or offspring to parent.
3. Genetics Of or relating to a generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin fīliālis, from Latin fīlius, son; see dhē(i)- in Indo-European roots.]

fil′i·al·ly adv.
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His mother had two long conversations with Mills on his passage through Paris and had heard of me (I knew how that thick man could speak of people, he interjected ambiguously) and his mother, with an insatiable curiosity for anything that was rare (filially humorous accent here and a softer flash of teeth), was very anxious to have me presented to her(courteous intonation, but no teeth).
Concluding his arracks against the Burns cult, the drunk man filially declares: 'A greater Christ, a greater Burns, may come' (l.120).
Filially, full system integration of the electric powertrain must be achieved with system-level analysis with the embedded controller software and the vehicle.
Filially, chapter 5 covers 1963 to the death of Carter Stanley in 1966.
Filially, the Court reiterated that the incorporation question proceeds by asking if the right in question is "fundamental to our scheme of ordered liberty." (102) Put another way, the Court asks whether the right is "deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition." (103) Simultaneously, however, the McDonald Court frames the same inquiry as a question of whether "the Framers and ratifiers of the Fourteenth Amendment counted the right to keep and bear arms among those fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty." (104)
until she is outlined filially against the rise of the hillock, then disappears from our view ...
Filially, John Smith also claims that the hay baler designed and manufactured by Mishap and sold by Sharp was defective and that the defect in the hay baler caused him harm.
Each of us, one might argue, begins with socially or filially determined self-identities, but these change with experience until they are parts of many identities, which are formed in relation to the roles we perform at various times.
Thanks to "Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops, 1966-1971," an important exhibition by the Graham Foundation in Chicago, the Halprin collaborations are filially receiving their due.