Natural feeling or affection due to kinship or some other relationship.

A generous act, generosity; natural affection or feeling.

Natural feeling or affection, originally esp. that between parent and child. Now English regional (northern) and U.S. (in African-American usage) and…

Instinct, instinctiveness; innate affection or sympathy. Obsolete.

Natural affection; usually, that of parents for their offspring.