Definition of Paternal

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Definition of Paternal
	Paternal Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care. Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate. Related Definitions: As, Care, Derived, Disposition, Estate, Father, Fatherly, From, Guiding, Hereditary, Instructing, Of, Or, Paternal, Pertaining, Received, Showing, The, To

Paternal Quotations

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander Pope

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Thomas Babington

The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself.
Theodor Herzl

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.
Simon Newcomb

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
Thomas W. Higginson

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.
Tony Danza

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.
Peter R. Grant

Paternal Translations

paternal in Italian is paterno
paternal in Latin is paterna, paternus
paternal in Spanish is paternal
paternal in Swedish is faders-, faderlig

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