Definition of Paternal quality

1. Noun. The benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father. "The gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears"

Exact synonyms: Fatherliness
Generic synonyms: Parental Quality
Attributes: Paternal
Derivative terms: Fatherly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paternal Quality

paternal age
paternal aunt
paternal aunts
paternal behaviour
paternal cousin
paternal cousins
paternal custody
paternal deprivation
paternal exposure
paternal filicide
paternal grandchild
paternal grandfather
paternal grandfathers
paternal grandmother
paternal grandmothers
paternal quality (current term)
paternal uncle
paternal uncles
paternalisation
paternalise
paternalised
paternalises
paternalising
paternalism
paternalisms
paternalist
paternalistic
paternalistically
paternalists
paternalization

Literary usage of Paternal quality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1919)
"He has none of the purely paternal quality which impresses you the moment you see Joffre; he is smarter and more alert in appearance than Nivelle. ..."

2. The Business of War by Isaac Frederick Marcosson (1918)
"He has none of the paternal quality which impresses you the moment you see Joffre; he is smarter and more alert in appearance than Nivelle; he has the trim, ..."

3. The Old World in Its New Face: Impressions of Europe in 1867-1868 by Henry Whitney Bellows (1869)
"... is informed with moral, rational, and carefully-balanced conceptions of the character of God and of the paternal quality of his government, ..."

4. Journal of the ... Annual Convention, Diocese of Western New York by Convention, Council, Episcopal Church, Diocese of Western New York (1889)
"And then-—what I may call the paternal quality. The greatest Bishop whom I ever knew was, for the largest part of ..."

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