Adjective:

ஒரு தகப்பனைப்,

fatherly's Usage Examples:

The Mason smiled with his gentle fatherly smile.

She stared after him, still perplexed by the hug - a fatherly or brotherly demonstration of fondness?This view seems logically to involve Ritschl's belief, that it is not the light of reason but the revelation of Christ which warrants the assertion of God's fatherly providential goodness.

Jenn faced the newcomer, surprised to see a small, grandfatherly man with brilliant green eyes standing near them.

A slight man with white hair, velvety green eyes, and a fatherly smile stood in the middle of the kitchen.

He is also wrongly described as a relative of Archbishop Abbot, from whom he acknowledges very gratefully, in the first of his epistles dedicatory of A Hand of Fellowship to Helpe Keepe out Sinne and Antichrist (1623, 4to), that he had "received all" his "worldly maintenance," as well as "best earthly countenance" and "fatherly incouragements.

Lately his actions were more fatherly than anything else.

"Seeing the look on his face, the grizzled warrior's voice grew fatherly.

There are matriarchs, tough guys, grandfatherly types and babes all at once.

Frances Burney, whom the old man had cherished with fatherly kindness, stood weeping at the door; while Langton, whose piety eminently qualified him to be an adviser and comforter at such a,time, received the last pressure of his friend's hand within.

" Jerome, the most influential theologian of the day, took up the cudgels against Vigilantius (he " ought to be called Dormitantius "), who, in spite of his fatherly admonition, had dared again " to open his foul mouth and send forth a filthy stink against the relics of the holy martyrs " (Hier.

Once more, in the doctrine of sin and redemption, the governing idea is God's fatherly purpose for His family.

Jule drew a deep breath and faced the small, grandfatherly man with eyes the color of an Irish meadow.

Synonyms:

fatherlike, paternal,

Antonyms:

unrelated, matriarchal, maternal,