Definition of Avuncular

1. Adjective. Resembling a uncle in kindness or indulgence.

Partainyms: Uncle

2. Adjective. Being or relating to an uncle.
Partainyms: Uncle
Derivative terms: 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

avows
avowtries
avowtry
avoyer
avoyers
avulse
avulsed
avulsed wound
avulses
avulsing
avulsion
avulsion fracture
avulsions
avulsive
avulsive cutoff
avuncular (current term)
avuncularities
avuncularity
avuncularly
avunculate
avunculates
avunculicide
avunculicides
avunculocal
avyze
avyzed
avyzes
avyzing
aw
aw shucks

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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