Definition of Fatherlike

1. Adjective. Like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective.

Exact synonyms: Fatherly
Similar to: Paternal
Derivative terms: Father, Fatherliness

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

fatherdom
fathered
fatherer
fatherers
fatherhood
fatherhoods
fathering
fatherland
fatherlands
fatherlasher
fatherlashers
fatherless
fatherlessness
fatherlike (current term)
fatherliness
fatherlinesses
fatherly
fathers
fathers-in-law
fathers-to-be
fathers of chapel
fathership
fatherships
fathom
fathomable
fathomed
fathomer
fathomers

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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