单词 | grandfilial |
释义 | grandfilial, a.|grændˈfɪlɪəl| [f. grand a. 12 b + filial a.] Of sentiments, duty, etc.: due from or befitting a grandchild to a grandparent.
1922Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Dec. 852/2 This work of grandfilial piety will be..of more interest to Americans than to Englishmen. 1947C. Amory Proper Bostonians iii. 71 It was Amy..who left the happiest picture of grandfilial devotion in all the Lowell Family, which she accomplished in just four lines of her poem ‘The Painted Ceiling’. 1956R. Macaulay Let. 14 Oct. (1962) 236, I suppose that in grandfilial loyalty I ought to use my grandfather's. 1986R. Barnard Political Suicide ix. 98 He had..taken the precaution of moving out.., in case she was too appalling, or too demanding in the matter of grandfilial duties. |

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