Meanings of fatherliness in English

It held, beneath the friendly fatherliness, the smooth steel of command.

What was there in this wine of great age which expelled reasonableness, fatherliness?

Worry, therefore, is an evidence that we do not trust the all-fatherliness of God.

He felt a pleasant thrill of fatherliness and protection.

And cryptically he expressed his glow of gratified fatherliness.

Perhaps he had been a godly person, saving a child from a disease-ravaged town, raising her with a kindly fatherliness.

There was an insufferable suggestion of ripe old age and fatherliness in his attitude which she found irritating in the extreme.

There was a warm note in his voice, a bit of truant fatherliness that added an element of grotesqueness to the situation.

What the person of the infinite is, we know not; but we are gratefully and lovingly conscious of the fatherliness of this Supreme Being.

He often had some about him, and in speaking to them the friendliness of his manner was touched with fatherliness in a truly attractive fashion.

I think sometimes the earthly fatherhood is taken from us, dear child, that we may learn to know the beautiful Fatherliness of God.

'There's a good child,' said Mr. Beavis, in a tone and with a twinkle that expressed a sportive mock-fatherliness.

"The Fatherliness of God," repeated Evadne.

"Yes, it's most kind of you," said Mr. Sandys, putting his arm within his daughter's with a pleasant air of fatherliness.

It held, beneath the friendly fatherliness, the smooth steel of command.

What was there in this wine of great age which expelled reasonableness, fatherliness?