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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