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paternal

adjective as in fatherly

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Thus, like Michael Corleone, Abel is a man living with a paternal figure looming over his life.

Barrett had chanced to place a paternal hand on her head as he passed the microphone to the student next to her.

It has been helping connect paternal half-siblings with each other and their donors since 2000.

The older brother, Henry McCollum, had come to embrace the real killer as a paternal figure.

Eric Jr. now helped his sobbing mother over to the front pew and his equally grief-stricken paternal grandmother, Gwendolyn Carr.

M. Roland, on the other hand, looked with placid and paternal admiration upon the brilliant girl.

Mr. Hammertons face was worth another check; 99 he looked down at her from his high stool in a grave, paternal fashion.

Nevertheless, she brought up her children to the highest respect for paternal authority, however imaginary it was for them.

Excusez, Monsieur, ce long barbouillage dont j'ai pris la libert de vous importuner, ou pardonnez tout l'amour paternal.

To-day a magnificent theatre rises on the site forever consecrated to me by those paternal labours, but—but I can never forget it.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to paternal, such as: benevolent, concerned, fatherlike, patrilineal, patrimonial, and protective.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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