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filial love

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Noun1.filial love - the love of a child for a parent
love - a strong positive emotion of regard and affection; "his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love"


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We have seen that Raoul had left at Blois another love in addition to filial love.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
But this counts for little among the green Martians, as parental and filial love is as unknown to them as it is common among us.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
For two years our ancestors were kept in sullen submission by that filial love which had invariably secured their allegiance to the mother country, whether its head chanced to be a Parliament, Protector, or Popish Monarch.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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