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Meanings of fatherly affection in English

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Usage of fatherly affection in English
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The aweful shock quickly gave place to a gush of fatherly affection.
Sketches of the Covenanters
2
This present arrest shall be the last proof of my fatherly affection.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
3
Native mothers mourn often the lack of fatherly affection in their white mates.
White Shadows in the South Seas
4
Monsieur Tudesco grasped his hand with a fatherly affection and declaimed:
The Aspirations of Jean Servien
5
In the toy biz, there's no room for fatherly affection -only next year's line.
Wired
6
I love you, Berenice, but I will make it a fatherly affection from now on.
The Titan
7
Mr. Merriman welcomed Desmond with quite fatherly affection, and congratulated him heartily on his appointment.
In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India
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But her fearfulness implied something other than fatherly affection.
Caleb's crossing
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It's more than likely that I might be content to regard her with fatherly affection.'
Born in Exile
10
The aged priest had known her all her life, and patted her head with fatherly affection.
A Lover in Homespun / And Other Stories
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At that he bent down and kissed her with a smile full of pleasure and fatherly affection.
Elsie's New Relations / What They Did and How They Fared at Ion;...
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Torn by patriotism and fatherly affection, Agamemnon resorted to a strategem to bring his daughter to the sacrifice.
Authors of Greece
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Bengt harboured an almost fatherly affection for Anders and felt greater sorrow over his fate than over his own.
The ice princess
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He therefore spoke to Antipholus in words of fatherly affection, with joyful hope that he should now be released.
Tales from Shakespeare
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He therefore spoke to Antipholis in words of fatherly affection, with joyful hope that he should now be released.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 3 / Books for Childr...
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And he pressed the new-comer's hand between both his own, surveying her the while with a fatherly affection and admiration.
The History of David Grieve
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