Fatherly Definition

fäthər-lē
adjective
Of, like, or appropriate to a father.
Fatherly love.
American Heritage
Of a father.
Webster's New World
Having traits considered typical of fathers; kind, protective, wise, etc.; paternal.
Webster's New World

Characteristic of what is considered the ideal behaviour pertaining to fatherhood.

Fatherly advice.
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adverb
As a father.
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Fatherly Sentence Examples

  • The Mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile.

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

  • Lately his actions were more fatherly than anything else.

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

  • He is also wrongly described as a relative of Archbishop Abbot, from whom he acknowledges very gratefully, in the first of his epistles dedicatory of A Hand of Fellowship to Helpe Keepe out Sinne and Antichrist (1623, 4to), that he had "received all" his "worldly maintenance," as well as "best earthly countenance" and "fatherly incouragements."

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