fatherlyadj.

Brit.

/ˈfɑːðəli/, U.S.

/ˈfɑðərli/

Forms: see father n. and -ly suffix¹.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch vāderlijc (Dutch vaderlijk ), Middle Low German vāderlīk , vēderlīk , Old High German faterlīh (Middle High German vaterlich , veterlich , German väterlich ), Old Icelandic fǫðurligr , Old Swedish faþurliker (Swedish faderlig ), Old Danish fadherligh (Danish faderlig ) < the Germanic base of father n. + the Germanic base of -ly suffix¹.

a. Of or relating to a father (in various senses).

ΚΠ

OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xxviii Et interrogantem discipulum a paterna uetuit sepultura : & gefraignenda ðeign from faederlica forbead byrgen.

OE Blickling Homilies 115 Wæs on þyssum dæge þæt ure Drihten Hælend Crist..eft to þæm fæderlican setle eode.

c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 167 Sonæ swa þa Cristes þeiȝnæs þæt mycele wundor isæȝen and þa fæderlice stefne ihærdon.

1572 Duke of Norfolk Let. 28 Jan. in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1919) 21 7 I give over my fatherly right to..the Earl of Sussex, and nextly my uncle William.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. i. 75 By that fatherly and kindly power, That you haue in her.

?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome i. xlvii. 185 Now this fatherly power..is almost of it selfe lost and abolished.

1629 L. Owen Speculum Iesuiticum (new ed.) 33 Of his owne meere fatherly and Apostaticall motion.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. xii. 291 I was forced to use a little fatherly Authority to bring her to.

1799 M. Geisweiler tr. A. von Kotzebue Poverty & Nobleness of Mind i. vii. 28 Why does he spurn a child that..has in vain intreated, ever since it was capable of feeling, to kiss his fatherly hand.

1843 E. Flygare tr. F. Bremer Professor & his Favourites xix. 75/2 I know now myself what misfortune is, and I will not abuse my fatherly power to compel you to a step quite opposite to your inclination.

1900 Homiletic Rev. Nov. 451/2 Since God is Father, then He has fatherly authority and should be obeyed.

1963 C. J. Bleeker Sacred Bridge 88 Also in this rebellion against fatherly authority Gaia played her part.

2009 M. Faulkner Going Blind ii. 23 By the force of his personality and his fatherly authority, he tried to keep us marooned in a world that year by year grew tighter and more confining.

b. Of or relating to ancestors; ancestral. Also: ancient, of great antiquity. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [adjective]

fatherlyOE

fatherenOE

ancestral1579

ancestriala1641

ancestory1650

ancestrian1756

ancestorial1777

progenitorial1825

forefatherly1855

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

fatherlyOE

gubernatorial1825

OE Cynewulf Elene 431 Nu is þearf mycel þæt we fæstlice ferhð staðelien.., þy læs to worpen sien frod fyrngewritu ond þa fæderlican lare forleten.

OE tr. Gospel of Nicodemus (Cambr.) i. §1. 141 He..ælcne restedæg geweð & ure fæderlican æ towyrpð.

?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. F.vii Tradycyons, lawes, fatherlye customes, and vsages, not grounded vpon Gods commandementes.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G1^v Poetrie is..of most fatherly antiquitie.

1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation iii. 140 Ecclesiasticall decrees, constitutions, provinciall and sinodal statutes, Fatherly customes.

1841 W. Howitt Student-life Germany xvi. 316 Adieu, now ye mountains, thou fatherly home.

1881 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 June 10/2 We firmly believe that the real sons of Russia will defend with all their heart and soul the fatherly traditions.

1910 Amer. Contractor 9 July 63/1 Of the cities of ‘Fatherly antiquity’ only one remains of the present day—Damascus.

2005 N. Roemer tr. E. Fuchs in Jewish Scholarship & Culture in 19th-cent. Germany iv. x. 117 Ancestral traditions (Väterbrauch) and fatherly customs (Vätersitte), the old traditions of our people.

2. Befitting or characteristic of a father; natural to a father; paternal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [adjective]

godcundeOE

fatherlyeOE

godlyOE

rectoral1675

Jehovian1822

All-Fatherly1845

Jehovic1884

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [adjective] > according to other attributes

fatherlyeOE

mildeOE

blissful1387

thorn-crowned1609

luciform1862

deific1878

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > fatherhood > [adjective] > proper to a father

fatherlyeOE

paternala1450

fatherlike1540

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Father > [adjective]

fatherlya1530

eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) ii. xiv. 146 Se papa..Eadwine þæm cyninge sende trymmendlic gewrit, & mid fæderlice [L. paterna] lufan hine wæs onbærnende.

OE tr. Apollonius of Tyre (1958) i. 2 He forgeat þa fæderlican arfæstnesse and gewilnode his agenre dohtor him to gemæccan.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. l. 3272 (MED) Vlixes, of faderly pite, Made his men hold hym & restreyne.

1483 tr. Adam of Eynsham Reuelation ix Y..thankid him that he wolde white safe to chaste me..in a fadyrly chastment.

a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 232 Crist..hathe to vs a fadirlye affeccion.

a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Clxxxxviii The father of heuen shewed hymselfe in a fatherly voyce, sayeng.

1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Mvi Lat vsz knaw thy faderlie lwiff.

1623 King James VI & I in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) III. 141 With my fatherlie blessing.

1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iii. iv. 264 Humbly to submit your selfe to his fatherly directions.

1734 J. Breval Hist. House of Nassau 111 There was not a Soldier in his Army whom he did not look upon with a kind of Fatherly Tenderness.

1776 S. Foote Bankrupt ii. 53 Perhaps it was a fatherly weakness.

1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. x. 232 'Twas fear, Fatherly fear and love.

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. ii. 16 The fatherly admonition was received in silence.

1879 ‘R. Elliott’ John Lyon 139 He pictured his silver-haired father..leaning forward to listen with fatherly pride to his arguments with the Rector.

1925 Rotarian Nov. 26 Your son and daughter..expected from you some fatherly commendation.

1972 S. Fischman tr. R. Carrier Is it Sun, Philibert? 62 He opened the door and gave Philibert a fatherly push.

2014 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 2 Aug. 75 He..insists he heeds every bit of fatherly advice.

3. Of a person.

a. Resembling a father in character or demeanour.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > fatherhood > [adjective] > resembling a father

fatherlike1542

fatherly1777

c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 68 (MED) In his prelacye..who faderly he was at al tymes on-to his subiectis.

1549 J. Proctor Fal of Late Arrian Pref. sig. C.iiij^v Deceaue not the louyng exdecracion of so hygh and fatherly a Prince conceyued of you, do not frustrate his traueil and labours.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. v. iii. 638-9 Good counsell and aduice must needs be of force, especially if they shall proceed from a wise, fatherly, reuerent, discreet person.

1777 C. A. Burney Jrnl. in F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 277 How friendly, and fatherly, sweet soul!

1832 L. Hunt Sir Ralph Esher I. viii. 166 A gentleman..who..having no children is so fatherly as to take care of the children of others.

1867 O. W. Holmes Guardian Angel iv. 46 He had been fatherly with Susan Posey.

1914 Hearst's Sept. 370/1 I am not quite so nice nor quite so fatherly as she thinks.

2000 R. Morris Better Angel iv. 154 He soon settled into a more mutually congenial role as Burroughs's fatherly confidant.

†b. Resembling a father in age; venerable. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > old person > old man > [adjective]

fatherly1548

patriarchical1645

patriarchal1732

old gentlemanly1819

old-mannish1865

madala1980

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xiii^v Both for age and prudent sagacitie, fatherly, a wyse & a graue personage, which for renuyng of the olde amitie, were commaunded [etc.].

?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 1 That place is more fitte for such olde fatherly men as you are, than for such yong men as I am.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. K4 The bishops are graue, ancient, and fatherlie men.

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

fatherlyadv.

Brit.

/ˈfɑːðəli/, U.S.

/ˈfɑðərli/

Forms: see father n. and -ly suffix².

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch vāderlīke (Dutch vaderlijk ), Middle Low German vāderlīke , Old High German faterlīcho (Middle High German vaterlīche , veterlīche , German väterlich ), Old Icelandic fǫðurliga < the Germanic base of father n. + the Germanic base of -ly suffix².Compare also Old English unfæderlīce in an unfatherly manner (see unfatherly adj.).

In a fatherly manner, like a father; with a father's care and affection.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [adverb] > in a fatherly manner

fatherlyOE

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

fatherlyOE

fatherlike?a1513

like a father1830

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) x. 83 Se munuc..hine geeadmette to ðæs halgan cneowum, biddende þæt he..his fyrwitnysse fæderlice miltsode.

c1175 (?OE) Instr. for Christians 172 in Anglia (1964) 82 16 Þeah he ne fæste nawiht þonne þreora dagas, þeah wile drihten hine fæderlice onfon æt his forðsiðe.

c1450 (a1400) Orologium Sapientiæ in Anglia (1888) 10 364 I am so fadirly admonestid.

c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 46 (MED) Transgressiones a-geyn Cristis law..he correctid not boystously, but fadirly and in fayre maner.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prol. How kyndly and fatherly he [sc. God] helpeth the.

1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Dij Exhorting him fatherlie to giue ouer that course.

1629 E. W. tr. L. Richeome Pilgrime of Loreto xxv. 441 Haue I brought thee into this world, and nourished thee so fatherly, to be forsaken by thee without piety, at the brinke of my graue?

1690 Vindic. New-Eng. 3/2 God hath for a while Fatherly Chastised them, by those Rods.

1742 tr. N. L. von Zinzendorf 7 Serm. on Godhead of Lamb iv. 26 The whole Godhead collectively is call'd the Father, since it deals so fatherly with us.

a1791 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 99 Fatherly I kiss and daut thee.

1848 J. R. Lowell Poems 2nd Ser. 162 I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bliss it upon my breast.

1850 E. B. Browning Runaway Slave (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) II. 131 We live beneath the sky,..That great smooth Hand of God, stretched out On all His children fatherly.

1922 F. J. Eddy Is Christianity Failure? 85 Why shouldn't a government act fatherly towards its citizens?

2015 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 13 June e5 You're either a guy that pushes buttons, motivates aggressively, or you do it fatherly, I guess.

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

单词	fatherly
释义	fatherlyadj. Brit. /ˈfɑːðəli/, U.S. /ˈfɑðərli/ Forms: see father n. and -ly suffix¹. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch vāderlijc (Dutch vaderlijk ), Middle Low German vāderlīk , vēderlīk , Old High German faterlīh (Middle High German vaterlich , veterlich , German väterlich ), Old Icelandic fǫðurligr , Old Swedish faþurliker (Swedish faderlig ), Old Danish fadherligh (Danish faderlig ) < the Germanic base of father n. + the Germanic base of -ly suffix¹. 1. a. Of or relating to a father (in various senses). ΚΠ OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xxviii Et interrogantem discipulum a paterna uetuit sepultura : & gefraignenda ðeign from faederlica forbead byrgen. OE Blickling Homilies 115 Wæs on þyssum dæge þæt ure Drihten Hælend Crist..eft to þæm fæderlican setle eode. c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 167 Sonæ swa þa Cristes þeiȝnæs þæt mycele wundor isæȝen and þa fæderlice stefne ihærdon. 1572 Duke of Norfolk Let. 28 Jan. in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1919) 21 7 I give over my fatherly right to..the Earl of Sussex, and nextly my uncle William. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. i. 75 By that fatherly and kindly power, That you haue in her. View more context for this quotation ?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome i. xlvii. 185 Now this fatherly power..is almost of it selfe lost and abolished. 1629 L. Owen Speculum Iesuiticum (new ed.) 33 Of his owne meere fatherly and Apostaticall motion. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. xii. 291 I was forced to use a little fatherly Authority to bring her to. View more context for this quotation 1799 M. Geisweiler tr. A. von Kotzebue Poverty & Nobleness of Mind i. vii. 28 Why does he spurn a child that..has in vain intreated, ever since it was capable of feeling, to kiss his fatherly hand. 1843 E. Flygare tr. F. Bremer Professor & his Favourites xix. 75/2 I know now myself what misfortune is, and I will not abuse my fatherly power to compel you to a step quite opposite to your inclination. 1900 Homiletic Rev. Nov. 451/2 Since God is Father, then He has fatherly authority and should be obeyed. 1963 C. J. Bleeker Sacred Bridge 88 Also in this rebellion against fatherly authority Gaia played her part. 2009 M. Faulkner Going Blind ii. 23 By the force of his personality and his fatherly authority, he tried to keep us marooned in a world that year by year grew tighter and more confining. b. Of or relating to ancestors; ancestral. Also: ancient, of great antiquity. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [adjective] fatherlyOE fatherenOE ancestral1579 ancestriala1641 ancestory1650 ancestrian1756 ancestorial1777 progenitorial1825 forefatherly1855 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > fatherhood > [adjective] fatherlyOE gubernatorial1825 OE Cynewulf Elene 431 Nu is þearf mycel þæt we fæstlice ferhð staðelien.., þy læs to worpen sien frod fyrngewritu ond þa fæderlican lare forleten. OE tr. Gospel of Nicodemus (Cambr.) i. §1. 141 He..ælcne restedæg geweð & ure fæderlican æ towyrpð. ?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. F.vii Tradycyons, lawes, fatherlye customes, and vsages, not grounded vpon Gods commandementes. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G1^v Poetrie is..of most fatherly antiquitie. 1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation iii. 140 Ecclesiasticall decrees, constitutions, provinciall and sinodal statutes, Fatherly customes. 1841 W. Howitt Student-life Germany xvi. 316 Adieu, now ye mountains, thou fatherly home. 1881 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 June 10/2 We firmly believe that the real sons of Russia will defend with all their heart and soul the fatherly traditions. 1910 Amer. Contractor 9 July 63/1 Of the cities of ‘Fatherly antiquity’ only one remains of the present day—Damascus. 2005 N. Roemer tr. E. Fuchs in Jewish Scholarship & Culture in 19th-cent. Germany iv. x. 117 Ancestral traditions (Väterbrauch) and fatherly customs (Vätersitte), the old traditions of our people. 2. Befitting or characteristic of a father; natural to a father; paternal. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [adjective] godcundeOE fatherlyeOE godlyOE rectoral1675 Jehovian1822 All-Fatherly1845 Jehovic1884 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [adjective] > according to other attributes fatherlyeOE mildeOE blissful1387 thorn-crowned1609 luciform1862 deific1878 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > fatherhood > [adjective] > proper to a father fatherlyeOE paternala1450 fatherlike1540 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Father > [adjective] fatherlya1530 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) ii. xiv. 146 Se papa..Eadwine þæm cyninge sende trymmendlic gewrit, & mid fæderlice [L. paterna] lufan hine wæs onbærnende. OE tr. Apollonius of Tyre (1958) i. 2 He forgeat þa fæderlican arfæstnesse and gewilnode his agenre dohtor him to gemæccan. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. l. 3272 (MED) Vlixes, of faderly pite, Made his men hold hym & restreyne. 1483 tr. Adam of Eynsham Reuelation ix Y..thankid him that he wolde white safe to chaste me..in a fadyrly chastment. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 232 Crist..hathe to vs a fadirlye affeccion. a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Clxxxxviii The father of heuen shewed hymselfe in a fatherly voyce, sayeng. 1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. Mvi Lat vsz knaw thy faderlie lwiff. 1623 King James VI & I in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) III. 141 With my fatherlie blessing. 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iii. iv. 264 Humbly to submit your selfe to his fatherly directions. 1734 J. Breval Hist. House of Nassau 111 There was not a Soldier in his Army whom he did not look upon with a kind of Fatherly Tenderness. 1776 S. Foote Bankrupt ii. 53 Perhaps it was a fatherly weakness. 1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. x. 232 'Twas fear, Fatherly fear and love. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. ii. 16 The fatherly admonition was received in silence. 1879 ‘R. Elliott’ John Lyon 139 He pictured his silver-haired father..leaning forward to listen with fatherly pride to his arguments with the Rector. 1925 Rotarian Nov. 26 Your son and daughter..expected from you some fatherly commendation. 1972 S. Fischman tr. R. Carrier Is it Sun, Philibert? 62 He opened the door and gave Philibert a fatherly push. 2014 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 2 Aug. 75 He..insists he heeds every bit of fatherly advice. 3. Of a person. a. Resembling a father in character or demeanour. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > fatherhood > [adjective] > resembling a father fatherlike1542 fatherly1777 c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 68 (MED) In his prelacye..who faderly he was at al tymes on-to his subiectis. 1549 J. Proctor Fal of Late Arrian Pref. sig. C.iiij^v Deceaue not the louyng exdecracion of so hygh and fatherly a Prince conceyued of you, do not frustrate his traueil and labours. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. v. iii. 638-9 Good counsell and aduice must needs be of force, especially if they shall proceed from a wise, fatherly, reuerent, discreet person. 1777 C. A. Burney Jrnl. in F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 277 How friendly, and fatherly, sweet soul! 1832 L. Hunt Sir Ralph Esher I. viii. 166 A gentleman..who..having no children is so fatherly as to take care of the children of others. 1867 O. W. Holmes Guardian Angel iv. 46 He had been fatherly with Susan Posey. 1914 Hearst's Sept. 370/1 I am not quite so nice nor quite so fatherly as she thinks. 2000 R. Morris Better Angel iv. 154 He soon settled into a more mutually congenial role as Burroughs's fatherly confidant. †b. Resembling a father in age; venerable. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > old man > [adjective] fatherly1548 patriarchical1645 patriarchal1732 old gentlemanly1819 old-mannish1865 madala1980 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xiii^v Both for age and prudent sagacitie, fatherly, a wyse & a graue personage, which for renuyng of the olde amitie, were commaunded [etc.]. ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 1 That place is more fitte for such olde fatherly men as you are, than for such yong men as I am. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. K4 The bishops are graue, ancient, and fatherlie men. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fatherlyadv. Brit. /ˈfɑːðəli/, U.S. /ˈfɑðərli/ Forms: see father n. and -ly suffix². Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Dutch vāderlīke (Dutch vaderlijk ), Middle Low German vāderlīke , Old High German faterlīcho (Middle High German vaterlīche , veterlīche , German väterlich ), Old Icelandic fǫðurliga < the Germanic base of father n. + the Germanic base of -ly suffix².Compare also Old English unfæderlīce in an unfatherly manner (see unfatherly adj.). In a fatherly manner, like a father; with a father's care and affection. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [adverb] > in a fatherly manner fatherlyOE society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > fatherhood > [adverb] fatherlyOE fatherlike?a1513 like a father1830 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) x. 83 Se munuc..hine geeadmette to ðæs halgan cneowum, biddende þæt he..his fyrwitnysse fæderlice miltsode. c1175 (?OE) Instr. for Christians 172 in Anglia (1964) 82 16 Þeah he ne fæste nawiht þonne þreora dagas, þeah wile drihten hine fæderlice onfon æt his forðsiðe. c1450 (a1400) Orologium Sapientiæ in Anglia (1888) 10 364 I am so fadirly admonestid. c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 46 (MED) Transgressiones a-geyn Cristis law..he correctid not boystously, but fadirly and in fayre maner. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prol. How kyndly and fatherly he [sc. God] helpeth the. 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Dij Exhorting him fatherlie to giue ouer that course. 1629 E. W. tr. L. Richeome Pilgrime of Loreto xxv. 441 Haue I brought thee into this world, and nourished thee so fatherly, to be forsaken by thee without piety, at the brinke of my graue? 1690 Vindic. New-Eng. 3/2 God hath for a while Fatherly Chastised them, by those Rods. 1742 tr. N. L. von Zinzendorf 7 Serm. on Godhead of Lamb iv. 26 The whole Godhead collectively is call'd the Father, since it deals so fatherly with us. a1791 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 99 Fatherly I kiss and daut thee. 1848 J. R. Lowell Poems 2nd Ser. 162 I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bliss it upon my breast. 1850 E. B. Browning Runaway Slave (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) II. 131 We live beneath the sky,..That great smooth Hand of God, stretched out On all His children fatherly. 1922 F. J. Eddy Is Christianity Failure? 85 Why shouldn't a government act fatherly towards its citizens? 2015 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 13 June e5 You're either a guy that pushes buttons, motivates aggressively, or you do it fatherly, I guess. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.eOEadv.OE
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