daughterlyadj.

1534 T. More Let. in Corr. (1947) 545 Christen charitie and naturall loue and your verie doughterly dealing..both binde me and striane me therto.

1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory f. 165 Moued, to knowe their seuerall affection and doughterly loue.

1678 T. Jones Of Heart & Soveraign 75 If the inside of our British Churches, that is, our Souls, owe Daughterly subjection to them at Rome.

1794 J. Hurdis Tears Affect. 45 To relate..the soft tale Of daughterly affection.

1824 Sat. Night 1 106/1 The lioness, though now grown large,..continued through life to show marks of daughterly obedience.

1871 H. B. Forman Our Living Poets 231 The mere fear lest our wives and daughters should..become less wifely and daughterly.

1921 M. B. Cooke Married? ix. 111 She gave him a daughterly hug and kiss.

1987 R. Pilcher Shell Seekers x. 278 Surely Penelope..could raise no objection to such sensible and daughterly concern?

2015 E. Hodgson Grief & Women Writers in Eng. Renaissance iv. 121 She is described as piercing, immense, mature, and rich, not in submissive or daughterly terms.

1664 H. More Expos. 7 Epist. sig. Bij^v The Womanishnesse or Daughterlinesse, if I may so speak, of the Church of Rome.

1871 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 325/1 She smiled with a kind of tentative daughterliness through the traces of her recent grief.

2009 A. Tyler Noah's Compass viii. 193 There was something of the only child in her character—an air of perennial daughterliness, an excessive concern for her parents' good opinion of her.