Definition of "daughterly" []

• Of or relating to the characteristics of a daughter. (adjective)

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• "I am acting very daughterly, which is something I do too often for my age."
• "Yes, there's something of her controlling treatment of Gina maybe that explains the daughterly demurral and of her friendships but not enough of, say, the men in her life and why she swore off them at a certain point."
• "This daughterly testament shows the tightrope stretched between family and fiction: Because you are a county alderman and because this book concerns a county council, I feel that I owe you a certain explanation and apology. . ."