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Daughterly   Listen
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Daughterly  adj.  Becoming a daughter; filial. "Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Daughterly" Quotes from Famous Books



... a nice nap?" she asked, coming to put a daughterly little hand over the older woman's hand. "Want more light? ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris

... always unable to understand in the least the actions of her puzzling though beloved child. Catherine, though lifted into the region of great anxieties and great triumphs, was yet always tenderly mindful of the claims of home. Very daughterly, very gently wise, is this little letter to the lonely and fretful mother, written when the saint had just passed through those exciting and decisive months at ...
— Letters of Catherine Benincasa • Catherine Benincasa

... for the last time, "I never liked your manner better towards me than when you kissed me last. For I like when daughterly love and dear charity hath no leisure to look ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall



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