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Definition of Fatherlike
1. Adjective. Like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective.
Definition of Fatherlike
1. Adjective. having the qualities of a father ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fatherlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fatherlike
Literary usage of Fatherlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... namely, the seven sons of Ailill and Medb, each of whom was called " Mane."
And each Mane had a nickname, to wit, Mane fatherlike and Mane ..."
2. The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner (1920)
"... you will be pleased to take us (out of your fatherlike pitty) and Cherish us
in yor Bosomes we are like ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1836)
"In the latter case our own language furnishes a strictly proper term—fatherly ;
ie, vi termini, fatherlike. ..."
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