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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