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