adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
piety
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Within families filial piety was the keystone of morality and it led logically to an absolute obedience to the household head.
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They put great store in filial piety and playing by their rules.
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However, where the two virtues conflicted, loyalty tended to take precedence over filial piety .
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This made him the intellectual heir of John Hunter, whose Essays and Observations he published with due filial piety in 1861.
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Here it may be as well to shift from filial piety to what for our society is the more straight forward issue of theft.
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This is clearly a work of filial piety .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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filial duty
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But a key element remained the considerable filial loyalty the catholic nationalists showed towards their clergy, bishops, and Popes.
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However, where the two virtues conflicted, loyalty tended to take precedence over filial piety.
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The filial son, smashing apart the rock mountain prison.
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The first theme struck in this new Gospel is that there was tension in the filial relationship.
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The pull of journalism was incessant, but filial loyalty led him to qualify as a property surveyor.
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They put great store in filial piety and playing by their rules.
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Within families filial piety was the keystone of morality and it led logically to an absolute obedience to the household head.