adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Do you mind if I give you some fatherly advice?
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From the plane window he could still see the two young women, and gave them a fatherly wave.
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He spoke in a warm, fatherly tone.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the city manager smiled his fatherly , kindly smile.
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He did all the fatherly duties, he changed diapers.
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He was always sort of brotherly and fatherly with him.
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His fatherly affection was not strong, as events proved, but his fear of the gods was.
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One day, feeling very fatherly , I decided to make him some soup.
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The suggestion of fatherly closeness was essential, even if it seemed awkward and difficult to illustrate.