Meaning of fatherlily | Babel Free

Definitions

In a fatherly manner.

rare

Examples

“Yours respectfully and fatherlily, / J. B.”

“There was a far, fair future in which he and this child, viewing the great work⟳ they should do together, might, too, say⟳ reverently: “What hath God wrought!” He smiled; he was no longer alone. / His Christmas present⟳ presently stirred in his sleep⟳, woke, and sat up. / “Wanterjinkerwater!” said he plaintively. “Dimmyjinkerwater!” / Vain of the delightful fact that he so readily understood this angelic lingo, John got the water, eager to wait⟳ fatherlily upon his child. The little man drank slowly, with long and deliberate pauses between little sips. […] Candles and firelight dancing on the walls; upon the table nothing worse than bread and milk and an open⟳ bible. And John himself, kneeling, smiling fatherlily upon a rosy and roguish elf who paddled in a glass of water and laughed gleefully.”

“Not now, but soon, and in a very few weeks, the Marchy winds already blowing, Mr. Eldredge of Mystic will be putting fatherlily his matchless peas in the frost-rid ground—after smoothing over the old ground-mole holes—and our friends in far, fair Florida, may safely move⟳ them to return⟳.”

“With a gentle smile⟳ that seemed unsuited to the mouth of so brave a soldier, he looked fatherlily around, his big eyes watching everything with a look⟳ of dazzled delight.”

““Don’t worry⟳ son,” said my father, fatherlily, “rules are made to be broken.””

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