Definition of Daughterly

1. Adjective. Befitting a daughter. "Daughterly affection"

Similar to: Filial
Derivative terms: Daughter

Definition of Daughterly

1. a. Becoming a daughter; filial.

Definition of Daughterly

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the characteristics of a daughter. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Daughterly

1. Becoming a daughter; filial. "Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him." (Cavendish) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Daughterly

daughter isotope
daughter language
daughter nuclide
daughter of the manse
daughter star
daughterboard
daughterboards
daughtercard
daughtercards
daughterhood
daughterless
daughterlike
daughterliness
daughterling
daughterlings
daughterly (current term)
daughters
daughters-in-law
daughters of the manse
daughtren
dault
daults
daunc't
daunce
dauncer
daunder
daundered
daundering
daunders
dauner

Literary usage of Daughterly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Terry White, James T. White & Company (1898)
"In 1875 she built,in memory of her daughterly bella, the Isabella Home foraged women, in Astoria, Long Island, on which she spent altogether $50000. ..."

2. Eminent British Statesmen by James Mackintosh, John Forster, John Macdiarmid, Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (1831)
"... inherited the features, the form, and the genius of her father, and requited his fond partiality by a daughterly love, which endured to the end. ..."

3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1886)
"For I like when daughterly love and dear charity hath no leisure to look to worldly courtesy." With the letter he sent her his shirt of hair, ..."

4. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"Sonly is never used, though filial does not fully represent it. daughterly is not common. We sometimes meet with the phrase " daughterly house;" that is, ..."

5. Reformation and Renaissance (circa 1377-1610) by Jean Mary Stone (1904)
"Who, well liking her most natural and dear daughterly affection towards him, gave her his fatherly blessing, and many godly words of comfort besides. ..."

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