noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
filial
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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 CORPUS
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I approve the deadly seriousness, the piety , the need for something sacred in your life.
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In this strange mix of piety and bawdiness, they directly recall the world of Dargah Quli Khan and the Muraqqa'-e-Dehli.
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Isabella never let her own piety give her simple ease.
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It was a city where piety and the hard sell met.
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Next came the inaugural luncheon and a new round of insincere bipartisan pieties.
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Nu might have been a village schoolmaster, or a teller of tales, respected for his piety .
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They lived under constant threat of exposure and extermination at the hands of the Inquisition, which monitored Christians' 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.