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Another word for fatherly

Adjective

  1. Like a father

    2. See also:

    kin

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Sentence Examples

  • The Mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile.

  • Lately his actions were more fatherly than anything else.

  • " Jerome, the most influential theologian of the day, took up the cudgels against Vigilantius (he " ought to be called Dormitantius "), who, in spite of his fatherly admonition, had dared again " to open his foul mouth and send forth a filthy stink against the relics of the holy martyrs " (Hier.

  • His frame was slight, his hair silvered, his smile fatherly.

  • Seeing the look on his face, the grizzled warrior's voice grew fatherly.

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