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What is filial piety?

What is filial piety? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Respect owed to one's parents and ancestors.
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In Korean American communities, the marriage bond has in some ways become stronger than filial piety.
If a woman be married, it is good that she should treat her parents-in-law with filial piety, and her husband with reverence.
In Western societies, filial piety is often understood to be solely the practice of caring for aging parents and older relatives.
I take the liberty of sending you this letter because of common interest and filial piety.
Refusal to accept heirship to a father could appear as a violation of the duty of filial piety.
Some one remarked that this was a reward for the filial piety of the parents.

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