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Meanings of fatherlike in English

Like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective.

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        1
        Also diffuse when making fatherly decisions, especially about the punishment of children.
        Wicca Spellcraft For Men
        2
        Start a war? He sighed and went on in a fatherly tone.
        The Door Into Summer
        3
        His kind and fatherly heart was interested in the brave young nobleman.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 / A Maga...
        4
        Michael Stuhlbarg's loving, fatherly monologue should have earned him every possible award.
        Radio NZ
        5
        Anthony Hopkin's Odin also returns to deliver yet more portentous fatherly wisdom.
        The Guardian
        Usage of fatherlike in English
        1
        He doesn't like hearing about the sex that much, but he doesn't get all fatherlike about it.
        Something wicked
        2
        Doug's overtly stern yet fatherlike geniality returned.
        Terminal Compromise
        3
        Then we were, as it were, impregnated with the thought of God-a just God, but benevolent and fatherlike.
        Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
        4
        Fatherlike, he thought he had done enough for a bit, and would enjoy a "sunning reaction" on the summerhouse roof.
        The Way of the Wild
        Fatherlike through the time