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Meanings of fatherly 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
6
Claude asked in a fatherly tone, as they took the road again.
One of Ours
7
It received from Rome organization, and returned faith in a fatherly Providence.
Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology
8
A sense of almost fatherly protection had developed in myself towards him.
The Dark Forest
9
My father, too, though disabled, still insisted on exercising his fatherly duties.
This child will be great
10
He glanced at me with a fatherly look, suggesting he knew better.
BBC
11
The master smiled and looked at her with eyes of fatherly admiration.
The Young Trailers: A Story of Early Kentucky
12
And the count with fatherly good humor always said the same thing.
Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)
13
He is exclusive property Racquet Club and exercises fatherly protectorate over members.
The new yorker
14
The aweful shock quickly gave place to a gush of fatherly affection.
Sketches of the Covenanters
15
This present arrest shall be the last proof of my fatherly affection.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
16
His large eyes were filled with the light of a fatherly graciousness.
The House of Martha
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