[f. prec. + -ITY. Cf. Fr. filialité.] a. The relation of a son or daughter to a parent. b. The quality of being filial.
1615. T. Adams, Two Sonnes, 70. There are that chalenge a filialitie—as the Jewes—‘we have one Father even God.’ Ibid. (1633), Exp. 2 Peter i. 4. 75. Infinite good things we partake, if we be sonnes; but all lies in the assurance of this filialitie.
1775. in Ash.
1839. Jas. Mill, Hum. Mind (1869), II. xiv. 53. Paternity connotes filiality.
18[?]. R. Thomas, in Chr. World Pulpit, No. 432. 87. Irrehgion is as unnatural as want of filiality in a child.
