fatherly

Modifies a noun

• love: No outstanding claim of justice can ever arrest the flow of his Father's fatherly love.
• figure: You can have small fathers; esthetically I guess it's better to have a big strong fatherly figure.
• eye: Badger lives in the wild wood and keeps a stern fatherly eye over them all.
• advice: He said, Second, a piece of fatherly advice: revolution is riot.
• concern: Through his holy prayers and fatherly concern the first Russian Orthodox Convent, dedicated to the Annunciation, was founded in London.
• care: He will give the kind of fatherly care that can bring about eternal joy in an administration that never ends.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: It is from this that he develops an almost fatherly bond with Krisztina.
• simply: Let God be simply a Father, and his government simply fatherly.

Used with adjective complement

seem: Gavin's brother Star, meanwhile, says " He actually seemed more fatherly than like our biological father.