fatherhoodn.

Brit.

/ˈfɑːðəhʊd/, U.S.

/ˈfɑðərˌhʊd/

Forms: see father n. and -hood suffix; also Middle English fathyrod, Middle English faderood.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: father n., -hood suffix.

Etymology: < father n. + -hood suffix. Compare slightly earlier fatherhead n.In use as a title of respect (see sense 1) perhaps after the corresponding use of post-classical Latin paternitas paternity n.; with His Holy Fatherhood at sense 1a compare Holy Father n. at father n. 7c.

†1. With possessive adjective, as your fatherhood.

a. As a title of respect or respectful form of address for an ecclesiastic, esp. one of high rank. Obsolete. His Holy Fatherhood: the Pope. Cf. Holy Father n. at father n. 7c.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > [noun]

priesteOE

presbyterOE

sirec1290

beauperec1300

sirc1386

fatherhooda1393

fatherheada1434

paternity1439

pater1481

fathershipa1500

father1528

key-bearer?1531

key-keeper?1556

vicegerent1572

priestdom1588

sacerdosa1592

flasher1611

priesthooda1616

père1619

sacerdote1685

firekeeper1789

soggarth1836

priestship1868

soutane1890

joss-man1913

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun]

popeeOE

apostoilec1275

vicary1303

vicar1340

bridge maker1341

Antichristc1370

vicar generalc1386

Holy Fatherc1400

servant of the servants of Godc1405

His Holy Fatherhood?a1425

universal bishopc1475

holiness1502

harlot1535

papa1555

Apostolic seat1560

vicegerent1572

man of Rome1581

pontiff1583

bullman1588

apostolicship1599

Pontifex Maximus1610

infallibleship1613

sanctity1633

popeship1641

decretaliarch1656

blessedness1670

Holy seata1674

infallibilityship1679

pontifexa1680

holyshipc1680

unholiness1682

His Infallibility1834

Pape1927

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 527 (MED) Your faderhode I wolde preie.

?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 210 And [I] besoughte his holy fadirhode, þat my boke myghte ben examyned.

1534 T. Swinnerton tr. Cardinal Beno Hyldebrande in tr. Mustre of Scismatyke Bysshopes sig. A.vj Althoughe he haue fulfylled the penaunce of thy fatherhode enioyned.

1556 L. Pollard Fyve Homilies Ep. Ded. sig. A.ii^v Certeyne sermons or Homiles the whiche I thought to offer to your reuerende Fatherhod and honorable Lordeshyp.

1615 Bp. J. Hall No Peace with Rome xiv, in Recoll. Treat. 870 Sixe whole books, should, by their father-hoods of Trent, be..imperiously obtruded vpon God, and his Church.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wilts. 147 He reproved Pope Sergius his fatherhood, for being a father indeed to a Base Child.

1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 270 Yet his right Reverend Father-hood may be satisfy'd.

b. As a title of respect or respectful form of address for one's father or (in extended use) for a man in authority. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [noun] > for a man

liefc907

goodmanOE

beausirec1300

sir1320

lede1377

fatherhood1461

gallant1488

fatherhead?a1500

Mr?a1640

gallantissimoa1681

mister1734

massa1766

sieur1772

stira1796

master1798

zurr1803

sieur1812

squire1828

guv'nor1843

Mistah1853

sor1891

suh1894

1461 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 390 I..submytt me lowlely to yowre good faderhood.

a1500 ( in C. Monro Lett. Margaret of Anjou (1863) 79 (MED) My right worshipfull and best beloved fader..I write unto youre good faderhod.

c1510 Gesta Romanorum (de Worde) sig. C.viii Dere fader I beseche you for all the loue y^t is bytwene your gracyous faderhode and me that ye name no man to be myn husbonde tyl this seuen yere be ended.

1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one i. sig. B3^v Now to the Iudges, may it please your reuerend—honorable father-hoods.

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 256 If what we have said shall not by thy Fatherhood be thought best.

c. As a title of respect or respectful form of address for God. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Father > [noun] > personality or title of

fatherhood?c1500

fatherhead1531

?c1500 Mary Magdalene (Digby) l. 904 That my prayour be resowndable to þi fathyrod In glory.

†2. The authority of a father; paternal rule or authority. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > [noun] > authority of head of family

fatherheada1400

fatherhooda1400

patria potestas1681

potestas1816

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6949 Quen aaron was ded..His sun eliazar was neist, And bar state of his fader-hade [Gött. fadir-hede].

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 276/2 Yet had Becket no cause to clayme fatherhoode ouer the kinge.

1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 4 Others..content to allowe the Pope's Fatherhood in spirituall matters.

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 16 Shall fatherhood, which is but man, for his own pleasure dissolve matrimony.

1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. (1694) i. ii. 5 We might have had an entire Notion of this Fatherhood, or Fatherly Authority.

1715 J. Dennis Priestcraft Distinguish'd from Christianity 23 They endeavour to prove, that these Tyrants are their Lords by Virtue of Fatherhood, and their Sovereign by Right Divine.

a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Philos. Wks. (1754) IV. 73 To support the divine right and absolute power of kings, Filmer advanced the silly and slavish notion of royal fatherhood.

a. The state, condition, or fact of being a father; the relation of a father to a child. Also in extended use. (Now the most common sense.) [In early use (compare quots. a1425, 1583) sometimes with reference to, or in translations of, Ephesians 3:15, where the Vulgate inaccurately translates Hellenistic Greek πατριά family (see patriarch n.) by post-classical Latin paternitas (see paternity n.).]

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > fatherhood > [noun]

fatherheadc1384

fatherhooda1425

paternitya1456

fathership1482

fathering1549

papaship1816

sireship1837

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Eph. iii. 15 Y bowe my knees to the fadir of oure Lord Jhesu Crist, of whom ech fadirhod [c1384 E.V. fadirheed; L. paternitas] in heuenes and in erthe is named.

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 198 In oþere householdis of fadris we fynden þat not for ech maundement brekyng..of þe fadir..þe child so brekyng and trespacyng schal anoon be putte out of household..of good fadirhode for euer.

c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 12 (MED) Vnbodili propurtees of bodili þingis..as ben..fadirhode and sonehode.

1548 tr. M. Luther Chiefe Articles Christen Faythe sig. Qvij^v Where no housholde is, there can neyther chyldren be broughte furthe nor educated, And the estate of fatherhode and motherhode shoulde altogether ceasse.

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xxxvi. 214 We heare that all fatherhoode [Fr. parentage] proceedeth of God.

1614 T. Wilson Comm. Epist. S. Paul to Romanes iv. §vi. 235 Father-hoode in respect of the faithful is heere giuen to Abraham not by efficiencie, as if he should be the worker and authour of faith in all his children..but by a kind of proportion, because the grace of the Couenant was giuen him.

a1653 R. Filmer Patriarcha (1680) i. 20 What becomes of the Right of Fatherhood, in Case the Crown does escheate for want of an Heir?

1710 B. Hoadly Original & Inst. Civil Govt. 166 No Father can dissolve the Obligation there is upon his Children to that degree of Respect, and Honour, which Father-hood implies in it.

a1763 S. Johnson Lett. (1994) V. 19 In his refusal to assist you, there is neither good nature, Fatherhood, nor Wisdom.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. xi. 241 I'll lay hold of them by their fatherhood.

1889 Boy's Own Paper 23 Mar. 400/1 The fatherhood of the game [stool-ball] to cricket is unmistakable.

1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 18/2 Eileen, gazing at him with glorified eyes, saw in him potential elements of respectable householding and dignified fatherhood.

1961 N. Roy Black Albino 32 The pride of fatherhood and the love of the parent for his young overstepped all other considerations.

1991 Maclean's 22 July 19/3 Bouchard has also found time to adjust to the joys and vagaries of fatherhood.

2002 A. Pearson I don't know how she does It (2003) xviii. 171 No man ever had to ask for advice on how to combine fatherhood and a career.

b. In Christian contexts: the fact of God being the father of humankind.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Father > [noun] > fatherhood of mankind

fatherheada1425

fatherhoodc1443

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 442 (MED) Þou [sc. God] callist þi silf fadir of heuene, whiche fadirhode may not be wiþoute condiciouns.

1565 J. Hall Courte of Vertue f. 69^v For it is thou that art our God And euer shalt remayne: For mercy at thy fatherhod The fatherles attayne.

1611 W. Perkins Cases of Consc. (1619) 368 He beares in his person the image of Gods paternitie, or father-hoode.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1957) III. 265 Now we consider in God, a two-fold Paternity, a two-fold Fatherhood.

1746 I. Watts Useful & Important Questions v. 149 The Idea of Fatherhood superadded to the Godhead, includes the Idea of the prime Agent, and supreme Ruler in the divine Oeconomy.

1830 E. Irving in R. J. Mackintosh Mem. Life Sir J. Mackintosh (1835) II. 477 We pray for those orphans who have been deprived of their parents and are now thrown on the fatherhood of God.

1876 A. Swanwick in Contemp. Rev. June 116 This conception of the universal Fatherhood of God..has changed..the aspect of the world.

1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 259 The best antidote to nationalistic idolatry is a monotheism with its corollary (since God's fatherhood implies men's brotherhood) of monoanthropism.

2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Mar. 8/2 The assertion..of the essentially gendered nature of the fatherhood of God is rejected..as an instance of mistaking metaphorical for analogical language.

†c. The position of being the longest-serving member of the House of Commons; the fact of being Father of the House (see father n. Phrases 6). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > Member of Parliament > oldest member > position of

fatherhood1899

fathership1901

1899 Daily News 24 Apr. 7/3 The House decided informally that the Fatherhood rested with whoever had been longest in the House.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 23 May 2/3 The ‘Fatherhood’ of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

4. The fact of having a certain person as one's father; paternity. N.E.D. (1895) describes this usage as ‘confused’.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > fatherhood > [noun] > paternal relationship

paternity1815

fatherhood1846

1846 J. Keble Lyra Innocentium 23 To descry The welcome notes of fatherhood, In form, and lip, and eye.

1878 A. B. Grosart in H. More Compl. Poems Mem. Introd. 41/1 His conception of our common Fatherhood and Brotherhood was Christ-like.

1918 Improvem. Era Sept. 951 Has it never occurred to you, my dear, the worth of a noble fatherhood?

1995 M. Spufford World of Rural Dissenters i. 51 The chapwoman who..had a baby of unknown fatherhood in an outhouse at Ripon.

5. The fact of being, or seeming to be, the author, originator, or perpetrator of something. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > relation of originator to that which originates

fatherhood1871

1871 H. B. Forman Our Living Poets 462 Any more than Silisco and Ruggiero..lack..fatherhood to fine sayings.

1885 Manch. Examiner 26 Jan. 5/1 To adopt the fatherhood of such atrocities is an easy way of obtaining credit.

2011 P. P. Battistelli Heinz Guderian iii. 13 It is worth noting that the whole issue of Guderian's ‘fatherhood’ of the Panzertruppe is a direct consequence of the evolution of history writing during the last 50 years.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	fatherhood
释义	fatherhoodn. Brit. /ˈfɑːðəhʊd/, U.S. /ˈfɑðərˌhʊd/ Forms: see father n. and -hood suffix; also Middle English fathyrod, Middle English faderood. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: father n., -hood suffix. Etymology: < father n. + -hood suffix. Compare slightly earlier fatherhead n.In use as a title of respect (see sense 1) perhaps after the corresponding use of post-classical Latin paternitas paternity n.; with His Holy Fatherhood at sense 1a compare Holy Father n. at father n. 7c. †1. With possessive adjective, as your fatherhood. a. As a title of respect or respectful form of address for an ecclesiastic, esp. one of high rank. Obsolete. His Holy Fatherhood: the Pope. Cf. Holy Father n. at father n. 7c. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > [noun] priesteOE presbyterOE sirec1290 beauperec1300 sirc1386 fatherhooda1393 fatherheada1434 paternity1439 pater1481 fathershipa1500 father1528 key-bearer?1531 key-keeper?1556 vicegerent1572 priestdom1588 sacerdosa1592 flasher1611 priesthooda1616 père1619 sacerdote1685 firekeeper1789 soggarth1836 priestship1868 soutane1890 joss-man1913 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun] popeeOE apostoilec1275 vicary1303 vicar1340 bridge maker1341 Antichristc1370 vicar generalc1386 Holy Fatherc1400 servant of the servants of Godc1405 His Holy Fatherhood?a1425 universal bishopc1475 holiness1502 harlot1535 papa1555 Apostolic seat1560 vicegerent1572 man of Rome1581 pontiff1583 bullman1588 apostolicship1599 Pontifex Maximus1610 infallibleship1613 sanctity1633 popeship1641 decretaliarch1656 blessedness1670 Holy seata1674 infallibilityship1679 pontifexa1680 holyshipc1680 unholiness1682 His Infallibility1834 Pape1927 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 527 (MED) Your faderhode I wolde preie. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 210 And [I] besoughte his holy fadirhode, þat my boke myghte ben examyned. 1534 T. Swinnerton tr. Cardinal Beno Hyldebrande in tr. Mustre of Scismatyke Bysshopes sig. A.vj Althoughe he haue fulfylled the penaunce of thy fatherhode enioyned. 1556 L. Pollard Fyve Homilies Ep. Ded. sig. A.ii^v Certeyne sermons or Homiles the whiche I thought to offer to your reuerende Fatherhod and honorable Lordeshyp. 1615 Bp. J. Hall No Peace with Rome xiv, in Recoll. Treat. 870 Sixe whole books, should, by their father-hoods of Trent, be..imperiously obtruded vpon God, and his Church. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wilts. 147 He reproved Pope Sergius his fatherhood, for being a father indeed to a Base Child. 1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 270 Yet his right Reverend Father-hood may be satisfy'd. b. As a title of respect or respectful form of address for one's father or (in extended use) for a man in authority. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [noun] > for a man liefc907 goodmanOE beausirec1300 sir1320 lede1377 fatherhood1461 gallant1488 fatherhead?a1500 Mr?a1640 gallantissimoa1681 mister1734 massa1766 sieur1772 stira1796 master1798 zurr1803 sieur1812 squire1828 guv'nor1843 Mistah1853 sor1891 suh1894 1461 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 390 I..submytt me lowlely to yowre good faderhood. a1500 ( in C. Monro Lett. Margaret of Anjou (1863) 79 (MED) My right worshipfull and best beloved fader..I write unto youre good faderhod. c1510 Gesta Romanorum (de Worde) sig. C.viii Dere fader I beseche you for all the loue y^t is bytwene your gracyous faderhode and me that ye name no man to be myn husbonde tyl this seuen yere be ended. 1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one i. sig. B3^v Now to the Iudges, may it please your reuerend—honorable father-hoods. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 256 If what we have said shall not by thy Fatherhood be thought best. View more context for this quotation c. As a title of respect or respectful form of address for God. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Father > [noun] > personality or title of fatherhood?c1500 fatherhead1531 ?c1500 Mary Magdalene (Digby) l. 904 That my prayour be resowndable to þi fathyrod In glory. †2. The authority of a father; paternal rule or authority. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > authority of head of family fatherheada1400 fatherhooda1400 patria potestas1681 potestas1816 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6949 Quen aaron was ded..His sun eliazar was neist, And bar state of his fader-hade [Gött. fadir-hede]. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 276/2 Yet had Becket no cause to clayme fatherhoode ouer the kinge. 1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 4 Others..content to allowe the Pope's Fatherhood in spirituall matters. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 16 Shall fatherhood, which is but man, for his own pleasure dissolve matrimony. 1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. (1694) i. ii. 5 We might have had an entire Notion of this Fatherhood, or Fatherly Authority. 1715 J. Dennis Priestcraft Distinguish'd from Christianity 23 They endeavour to prove, that these Tyrants are their Lords by Virtue of Fatherhood, and their Sovereign by Right Divine. a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Philos. Wks. (1754) IV. 73 To support the divine right and absolute power of kings, Filmer advanced the silly and slavish notion of royal fatherhood. 3. a. The state, condition, or fact of being a father; the relation of a father to a child. Also in extended use. (Now the most common sense.) [In early use (compare quots. a1425, 1583) sometimes with reference to, or in translations of, Ephesians 3:15, where the Vulgate inaccurately translates Hellenistic Greek πατριά family (see patriarch n.) by post-classical Latin paternitas (see paternity n.).] ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > fatherhood > [noun] fatherheadc1384 fatherhooda1425 paternitya1456 fathership1482 fathering1549 papaship1816 sireship1837 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Eph. iii. 15 Y bowe my knees to the fadir of oure Lord Jhesu Crist, of whom ech fadirhod [c1384 E.V. fadirheed; L. paternitas] in heuenes and in erthe is named. c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 198 In oþere householdis of fadris we fynden þat not for ech maundement brekyng..of þe fadir..þe child so brekyng and trespacyng schal anoon be putte out of household..of good fadirhode for euer. c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 12 (MED) Vnbodili propurtees of bodili þingis..as ben..fadirhode and sonehode. 1548 tr. M. Luther Chiefe Articles Christen Faythe sig. Qvij^v Where no housholde is, there can neyther chyldren be broughte furthe nor educated, And the estate of fatherhode and motherhode shoulde altogether ceasse. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xxxvi. 214 We heare that all fatherhoode [Fr. parentage] proceedeth of God. 1614 T. Wilson Comm. Epist. S. Paul to Romanes iv. §vi. 235 Father-hoode in respect of the faithful is heere giuen to Abraham not by efficiencie, as if he should be the worker and authour of faith in all his children..but by a kind of proportion, because the grace of the Couenant was giuen him. a1653 R. Filmer Patriarcha (1680) i. 20 What becomes of the Right of Fatherhood, in Case the Crown does escheate for want of an Heir? 1710 B. Hoadly Original & Inst. Civil Govt. 166 No Father can dissolve the Obligation there is upon his Children to that degree of Respect, and Honour, which Father-hood implies in it. a1763 S. Johnson Lett. (1994) V. 19 In his refusal to assist you, there is neither good nature, Fatherhood, nor Wisdom. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. xi. 241 I'll lay hold of them by their fatherhood. 1889 Boy's Own Paper 23 Mar. 400/1 The fatherhood of the game [stool-ball] to cricket is unmistakable. 1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 18/2 Eileen, gazing at him with glorified eyes, saw in him potential elements of respectable householding and dignified fatherhood. 1961 N. Roy Black Albino 32 The pride of fatherhood and the love of the parent for his young overstepped all other considerations. 1991 Maclean's 22 July 19/3 Bouchard has also found time to adjust to the joys and vagaries of fatherhood. 2002 A. Pearson I don't know how she does It (2003) xviii. 171 No man ever had to ask for advice on how to combine fatherhood and a career. b. In Christian contexts: the fact of God being the father of humankind. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Father > [noun] > fatherhood of mankind fatherheada1425 fatherhoodc1443 c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 442 (MED) Þou [sc. God] callist þi silf fadir of heuene, whiche fadirhode may not be wiþoute condiciouns. 1565 J. Hall Courte of Vertue f. 69^v For it is thou that art our God And euer shalt remayne: For mercy at thy fatherhod The fatherles attayne. 1611 W. Perkins Cases of Consc. (1619) 368 He beares in his person the image of Gods paternitie, or father-hoode. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1957) III. 265 Now we consider in God, a two-fold Paternity, a two-fold Fatherhood. 1746 I. Watts Useful & Important Questions v. 149 The Idea of Fatherhood superadded to the Godhead, includes the Idea of the prime Agent, and supreme Ruler in the divine Oeconomy. 1830 E. Irving in R. J. Mackintosh Mem. Life Sir J. Mackintosh (1835) II. 477 We pray for those orphans who have been deprived of their parents and are now thrown on the fatherhood of God. 1876 A. Swanwick in Contemp. Rev. June 116 This conception of the universal Fatherhood of God..has changed..the aspect of the world. 1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 259 The best antidote to nationalistic idolatry is a monotheism with its corollary (since God's fatherhood implies men's brotherhood) of monoanthropism. 2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Mar. 8/2 The assertion..of the essentially gendered nature of the fatherhood of God is rejected..as an instance of mistaking metaphorical for analogical language. †c. The position of being the longest-serving member of the House of Commons; the fact of being Father of the House (see father n. Phrases 6). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > Member of Parliament > oldest member > position of fatherhood1899 fathership1901 1899 Daily News 24 Apr. 7/3 The House decided informally that the Fatherhood rested with whoever had been longest in the House. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 23 May 2/3 The ‘Fatherhood’ of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. 4. The fact of having a certain person as one's father; paternity. N.E.D. (1895) describes this usage as ‘confused’. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > fatherhood > [noun] > paternal relationship paternity1815 fatherhood1846 1846 J. Keble Lyra Innocentium 23 To descry The welcome notes of fatherhood, In form, and lip, and eye. 1878 A. B. Grosart in H. More Compl. Poems Mem. Introd. 41/1 His conception of our common Fatherhood and Brotherhood was Christ-like. 1918 Improvem. Era Sept. 951 Has it never occurred to you, my dear, the worth of a noble fatherhood? 1995 M. Spufford World of Rural Dissenters i. 51 The chapwoman who..had a baby of unknown fatherhood in an outhouse at Ripon. 5. The fact of being, or seeming to be, the author, originator, or perpetrator of something. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > relation of originator to that which originates fatherhood1871 1871 H. B. Forman Our Living Poets 462 Any more than Silisco and Ruggiero..lack..fatherhood to fine sayings. 1885 Manch. Examiner 26 Jan. 5/1 To adopt the fatherhood of such atrocities is an easy way of obtaining credit. 2011 P. P. Battistelli Heinz Guderian iii. 13 It is worth noting that the whole issue of Guderian's ‘fatherhood’ of the Panzertruppe is a direct consequence of the evolution of history writing during the last 50 years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1393
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