unfilialadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈfɪlɪəl/, U.S. /ˌənˈfɪliəl/ (un- prefix1 1) Also unfilially adv. (Webster 1864), unfilialness.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > undutifulness > [adjective] > to parents
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > [adjective] > undutiful to parents
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 406 You offer him..a wrong Something vnfilliall. View more context for this quotation
1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God 121 To preserve them from the Contagion of Sinne, or Cure them of the unfilial habitudes of it.
1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris ii. 44 Ungrateful, unfilial Wretch so soon to trample on his Ashes.
1850 W. Wordsworth Poems Ded. National Independence in Poet. Wks. III. i. xvii. 61 Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unfilial fears I am ashamed.
1880 A. E. Moule Chinese Stories v. 78 I charged him with unfilial conduct in compelling his mother..to connive at idolatry.
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