Filial vs Brotherly - What's the difference?
filial | brotherly |
(not comparable) Pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter.
* 1794 , ,
(comparable) Respectful of the duties and attitudes of a son or daughter toward their parents.
* 1885 , , "The actions and Attitude of Filiality", translated by James Legge,Cited in Robert E. Van Voorst (ed.) (2005), Anthology of world scriptures , ISBN 0-534-52099-5
(genetics) Of a generation or generations descending from a specific previous one.
* 1916 , ,
English collateral adjectives
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Of or characteristic of brothers.
In the manner of a brother, as a brother, as brothers.
* 1907 , Jack London, The Iron Heel :
As adjectives the difference between filial and brotherly
is that filial is pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter while brotherly is of or characteristic of brothers.As an adverb brotherly is
in the manner of a brother, as a brother, as brothers.filial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The filial duty Ellesmere had paid to a father, who had no other claim to it than that he was'' his father, was now consoling to ''him [D'Alonville]; [...]
- If the admonition [to the parent] does not take effect, the son will be more reverential and more filial ; [...]
Genetics & Eugenics, p. 101.
- This, following Bateson, we may call the parental generation or P generation. Subsequent generations are called filial generations (abbreviated F) and their numerical order is indicated by a subscript, [...]
Synonyms
* (pertaining to or befitting of children) sonly, daughterlyAntonyms
* (pertaining to or befitting of children) maternal, paternal * (descendent) parentalDerived terms
* filial pietyReferences
brotherly
English
Adjective
(-)- brotherly love
Adverb
(head)- "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly ?"
