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Definition of Father-figure
1. Noun. A man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Father-figure
Literary usage of Father-figure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Academia to Amicitia: Milton's Latin Writings and the Italian Academies by Estelle Haan (1998)
"Even more striking is Milton's presentation of Manso as a second father figure.
In a sense, that paternal surrogacy inherent in Ovid and implied by Achilles ..."
2. Getting Off the Hook: Treatment of Drug Addiction and Social Disorders by Jurriaan Plesman (1986)
"Thus, the fact that I have no father figure in my childhood may not only explain
my fear of authority figures, but could even aggravate my problems, ..."
3. Violence in South Africa: A Variety of Perspectives by Elirea Bornman, René Van Eeden, Marie Wentzel (1998)
"They had an authoritative father figure or perceived the father figure as such.
They experienced guilt with regard to sexuality. Their overt aggression was ..."
4. Constructions of Childhood in the Ancient World by Kevin Glowacki, Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan (2008)
"In fact, the placement of a non-Roman child in the arms of a soldier may suggest
the replacement of the captive (and dangerous) non-Roman father figure with ..."
5. Moon-O-Theism: Religion of a War and Moon God Prophet, Volume II of II by Yoel Natan (2006)
"In this structure, Allah the moon-god still had to relate positively with the
other astral gods as though he were a father figure. ..."
6. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1854)
"... —and favored not a little by the difference of their physical constitutions.
The fine proportions of my father's figure, and his great manly beauty, ..."
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