adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a filial manner; with filial feeling or affection.
1613. Bp. Hall, An Holy Panegyrick, 25. There is no seruant of God, but feares filially.
1702. C. Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana, III. II. xxx. (1852), 520. His prayers were not more observable throughout New-England for the argumentative, the importunate, and, I had almost said, filially familiar strains of them, than for the wonderful successes that attended them.
1843. Gladstone, Glean., V. i. 37. Their tone has, we belive, been one and harmonious, from first to last, in decided reprobation of abuses in the Roman Church, and in dutiful affection filially accorded to their own.
