daughterly

comparative more daughterly · superlative most daughterly

1. Relating to or characteristic of a daughter.

   I came to regard the distinguished professor with an almost daughterly affection.

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   She had lost so much weight her magnificent head looked vulnerable on its swan-like neck, and this new delicacy, this suggestion of mortal time working on her just as it works on everybody, spoke to me more loudly than any of the old accusations of daughterly neglect ever had.

   2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 391