Like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective.
1 Also diffuse when making fatherly decisions, especially about the punishment of children.
2 Start a war? He sighed and went on in a fatherly tone.
3 His kind and fatherly heart was interested in the brave young nobleman.
4 Michael Stuhlbarg's loving, fatherly monologue should have earned him every possible award.
5 Anthony Hopkin's Odin also returns to deliver yet more portentous fatherly wisdom.
6 Claude asked in a fatherly tone, as they took the road again.
7 It received from Rome organization, and returned faith in a fatherly Providence.
8 A sense of almost fatherly protection had developed in myself towards him.
9 My father, too, though disabled, still insisted on exercising his fatherly duties.
10 He glanced at me with a fatherly look, suggesting he knew better.
11 The master smiled and looked at her with eyes of fatherly admiration.
12 And the count with fatherly good humor always said the same thing.
13 He is exclusive property Racquet Club and exercises fatherly protectorate over members.
14 The aweful shock quickly gave place to a gush of fatherly affection.
15 This present arrest shall be the last proof of my fatherly affection.
16 His large eyes were filled with the light of a fatherly graciousness.
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