Word Meanings - DAUGHTERLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Becoming a daughter; filial. Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish.

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• THOMAS PHOSPHATE; THOMAS SLAG
  See ABOVE
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• TOWARDS
  See TOWARD
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• FILIALLY
  In a filial manner.
• LIKEROUS; LIKEROUSNESS
  See CHAUCER
• LIKABLE
  Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; as, a likable person. Thackeray.
• LIKIN
  A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit. "Likin," which used to be regarded as illegal, as one of the many, "squeezes" imposed by the mandarins, is, in Jamieson's opinion, just as legal as any
• DAUGHTERLY
  Becoming a daughter; filial. Sir Thomas liked her natural and dear daughterly affection towards him. Cavendish.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• NATURAL
  Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
• NATURALIZE
  1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• AFFECTIONATED
  Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
• AFFECTIONATE
  1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
• NATURALNESS
  The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
• THOMAS PROCESS
  See ABOVE
• DAUGHTERLINESS
  The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.
• AFFECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• MINIONLIKE; MINIONLY
  Like a minion; daintily. Camden.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• WELL-LIKING
  Being in good condition. They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well-liking. Bk. of Com. Prayer .
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• SOLDIERLIKE
  Like a soldier; soldierly.
• BEASTLIKE
  Like a beast.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• TOWARD; TOWARDS
  1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
• COWLIKE
  Resembling a cow. With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. Pope.
• QUAKERLIKE
  Like a Quaker.
• MAPLIKE
  Having or consisting of lines resembling a map; as, the maplike figures in which certain lichens grow.