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Definition of Avuncular
1. Adjective. Resembling a uncle in kindness or indulgence.
2. Adjective. Being or relating to an uncle.
Definition of Avuncular
1. a. Of or pertaining to an uncle.
Definition of Avuncular
1. Adjective. In the manner of an uncle, pertaining to an uncle. ¹
2. Adjective. (by extension) Kind, genial, benevolent, or tolerant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Avuncular
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avuncular
Literary usage of Avuncular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"In short, it is not permissible to treat a given example of avuncular customs
... At all events, Tylor's assumption that avuncular authority ,is a mark of ..."
2. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1854)
"... there is an absolute uniformity of degree in the depth of the avuncular, ...
avuncular mind and doles out fifty cents from the avuncular treasure-box. ..."
3. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Clive, in the avuncular gig, is driven over the downs to Brighton, to hU maternal
auut there. ... Clive had pa-^ed the avuncular banking- house in the city, ..."
4. The Grammar of Science by Karl Pearson (1900)
"I will not give here the values obtained for each of the four parental, the eight
grandparental, the eight avuncular, and the three fraternal sorts of ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"(i) Fecundity (direct to second degree and collateral, fraternal and avuncular).
In hounds:— (j) Coat-colour (direct to third degree and collateral). ..."
6. Evolution of Law: Select Readings on the Origin and Development of Legal by Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore (1915)
"So far as could be ascertained, the form of government is clearly discriminable
from that commonly styled avuncular; for, in the first place, ..."
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