Meaning of highfather | Babel Free

Definitions

A respected, high-ranking male elder or leader; a patriarch; a forefather; a grandfather.

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Examples

“There is no active worship⟳ for the Highfather, except at meal time, when all Mischta look⟳ into the sky and offer⟳ a symbolic thanks to him, whom they call⟳ "the Grandfather."”

“I do not have⟳ many powerful friends on earth, but rather they have⟳ gone forth, gone away from the joys of the world, sought for themselves the king of glory, they live⟳ now in heaven with the Highfather, dwell in glory.”

“As she led him into the house, she told him that the High Father, her adoptive great-grandfather, was equivalent to a Supreme Court Justice.”

““I did not lie⟳," said the High Father. “The odds of survival are grim. […]"”

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