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▪ I. fatherly, a.|ˈfɑːðəlɪ|
[OE. fæderlic, f. fæder, father + -lic: see -ly1.]
†1. Of or pertaining to a (natural or spiritual) father; paternal. Obs.
1599Shakes. Much Ado iv. i. 75 By that fatherly and kindly power, That you haue in her. 1626L. Owen Spec. Jesuit. (1629) 33 Of his owne meere fatherly and Apostaticall motion. a1633S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. i. xlvii. §3 (1670) 174 Now this fatherly power..is almost of it self lost and abolished.
†b. Of or pertaining to ancestors; ancestral. Hence also, Venerable. Obs.
a1000Elene 431 (Gr.) Þy læs..þa fæderlican lare [sien] forlæten. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetric (Arb.) 48 Poetrie is..of most fatherly antiquitie. 1634Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 154 Ecclesiastical decrees, constitutions, provincial and synodal statutes, fatherly customs.
2. Resembling a father:
†a. In age, hence, venerable (obs.).
b. In character or demeanour.
1577J. Northbrooke Dicing (1843) 19 That place is more fitte for such olde fatherly men as you are, than for such yong men as I am. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 71 The bishops are graue, ancient, and fatherlie men. 1777F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 277 How friendly, and fatherly, sweet soul! 1832L. Hunt Sir R. Esher (1850) 89 A gentleman..who..having no children is so fatherly as to take care of the children of others. 1867O. W. Holmes Guardian Angel iv. (1891) 47 He had been fatherly with Susan Posey.
3. Of the feelings and conduct: Such as is proper in or from a father; natural to a father; paternal.
c1440Gesta Rom. lii. 232 (Harl. MS.) Crist..hathe to vs a fadirlye affeccion. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 28 Y..thankid him that he wolde white safe to chaste me..in a fadyrly chastment. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 198 The father of heuen shewed hymselfe in a fatherly voyce, sayenge. 1533Gau Richt Vay (1888) 86 Lat vsz knaw thy faderlie lwiff. 1623Jas. I in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 283. III. 141 With my fatherlie blessing. 1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iii. iv. 264 Humbly to submit yourselfe to his fatherly directions. 1776Foote Bankrupt ii. Wks. 1799 II. 122 Perhaps it was a fatherly weakness. 1801Southey Thalaba x. xiii, 'Twas fear, Fatherly fear and love. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. ii. 16 The fatherly admonition was received in silence.
▪ II. fatherly, adv.|ˈfɑːðəlɪ|
[f. father n. + -ly2.]
In a fatherly manner, as a father; with a father's care and affection.
a1500Orol. Sap. in Anglia X. 364, I am so fadirly admonestid. 1589Pasquil's Return D ij, Exhorting him fatherlie to giue ouer that course. a1723I. Mather Vind. New Eng. in Andros Tracts II. (1869) 27 God hath for a while Fatherly Chastised them by those Rods. c1848Lowell Changeling, I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bliss it upon my breast. 1853Mrs. Browning Poems, Runaway Slave, The sky..That great smooth Hand of God stretched out On all his children fatherly. |