"granddaughterly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From granddaughter + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more granddaughterly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most granddaughterly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1868, Edward E[verett] Hale, If, Yes, and Perhaps. Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations, with Some Bits of Fact., Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, page 81:",
          "text": "Our excursion to Topsham would, we supposed, prove a very disagreeable business to him; but we knew it would result very agreeably for us, and so, though with a good deal of maidenly compunction and granddaughterly compassion on Julia’s part, we out[-]voted him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1871, [Matilda Charlotte Houstoun], chapter XXIX, in Wide of the Mark, volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 269:",
          "text": "Mabel had gone (it was a small service of granddaughterly duty, that had from long habit become an institution at Castle Roy) to her grandfather’s sanctum, with a cup of the beverage he loved, namely, a half cupful of weak green tea, filled to the brim with clotted cream.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1881, “Rita” [pen name; Eliza Humphreys], “Extracts from Clarice Norburton’s Journal”, in Fragoletta, volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 12:",
          "text": "I don’t think she can really care for him, except just in a grand[-]daughterly (what a horrid word to write!) sort of way.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 March 21, Bobbi Olson, “Forgotten Treasure: She sought a little wisdom. She found L.A.’s Auntie Mame.”, in Los Angeles Times, page E1:",
          "text": "But I felt I was missing something, a link to the older generation. I thought it would be nice to have an elder to talk to, someone who could lay a little life wisdom on me as I reciprocated with granddaughterly attentions.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Relating to or characteristic of a granddaughter."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "grand-daughterly"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "granddaughterly"
}

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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From granddaughter + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more granddaughterly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most granddaughterly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1868, Edward E[verett] Hale, If, Yes, and Perhaps. Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations, with Some Bits of Fact., Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, page 81:",
          "text": "Our excursion to Topsham would, we supposed, prove a very disagreeable business to him; but we knew it would result very agreeably for us, and so, though with a good deal of maidenly compunction and granddaughterly compassion on Julia’s part, we out[-]voted him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1871, [Matilda Charlotte Houstoun], chapter XXIX, in Wide of the Mark, volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 269:",
          "text": "Mabel had gone (it was a small service of granddaughterly duty, that had from long habit become an institution at Castle Roy) to her grandfather’s sanctum, with a cup of the beverage he loved, namely, a half cupful of weak green tea, filled to the brim with clotted cream.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1881, “Rita” [pen name; Eliza Humphreys], “Extracts from Clarice Norburton’s Journal”, in Fragoletta, volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 12:",
          "text": "I don’t think she can really care for him, except just in a grand[-]daughterly (what a horrid word to write!) sort of way.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 March 21, Bobbi Olson, “Forgotten Treasure: She sought a little wisdom. She found L.A.’s Auntie Mame.”, in Los Angeles Times, page E1:",
          "text": "But I felt I was missing something, a link to the older generation. I thought it would be nice to have an elder to talk to, someone who could lay a little life wisdom on me as I reciprocated with granddaughterly attentions.",
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        }
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        "Relating to or characteristic of a granddaughter."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "grand-daughterly"
    }
  ],
  "word": "granddaughterly"
}