a. (UN-1 7.)
Also unfilially adv. (Webster, 1864), unfilialness.
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., IV. iv. 417. You offer him … a wrong Something vnfilliall.
1648. Boyle, Seraphic Love (1659), 121. To preserve them from the Contagion of Sinne, or Cure them of the unfilial habitudes of it.
1756. Foote, Eng. fr. Paris, II. Ungrateful, unfilial wretch! so soon to trample on his ashes.
1803. Wordsw., ‘When I have borne,’ 8. Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unfilial fears I am ashamed.
1880. Moule, Chinese Stories, v. 78. I charged him with unfilial conduct in compelling his mother … to connive at idolatry.
