Paternal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PATERNAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• pertaining to a father
• of or appropriate to a father
• showing a kindness and care associated with a father; fatherly
• related through the father
• 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.
• belonging to or inherited from one\'s father
• characteristic of a father
• relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent
• related on the father\'s side
• fatherly

Words related to PATERNAL

fatherly17 paternally15

Words that contain PATERNAL

paternally15 paternalism15 paternalist13 paternalisms16 paternalists14 paternalistic17 paternalistical19 paternalistically24

How to use PATERNAL in a sentence

• On my return, I was received both by my father and mother with great joy and affection, and was once more restored to my paternal dwelling in peace and happiness.
• The proud young head is bowed in reverence Before the holy priest of God, whose face Is glowing with paternal love that shines Through dignity of the official calm.
• Nothing is more remarkable in the Roman laws than the extent of paternal power.
• Brother David Boynton, at this writing, remains on the old farm, which has been growing with the passing decades, until the paternal acres have become a large estate.
• Besides the paternal affection with which the bank manager regarded his cashier, another tie tended to make their relations all the stronger and more personal.
• Their paternal farm seemed to have sunk into the earth.
• On his coming of age Schopenhauer was entitled to a share of the paternal estate, a share which yielded him a yearly income of about L150.
• Indeed it may be observed, that natural affection frequently assumes this shape in the paternal heart, nor is the vain ambition confined to the Irish peasant alone.
• Despite her banishment and excommunication the church at Boston seemed to consider it a duty to keep a paternal eye on Mrs.
• Much affected by this proof of the paternal care of the government, I asked what Mr.
• His short, spare person, his vivid, ever-active intellect testified to the paternal impress.
• It is best for you to go back to your paternal home, and to live a good and industrious life.
• The paternal Ehrenthal, however, tried in vain to keep up a conversation with him.
• The shadow of a domestic affliction which darkened all his life seemed only to have increased his paternal care and tenderness.
• Now that Claude had given in to him he became almost paternal.
• Sir Roger having little paternal fortune, and being a man rather profuse than oeconomical, he had recourse to writing for bread.
• I satisfied him about the care that had been taken of her, and told him of the friendly and even paternal attendance she had had from Dr.
• Douglas had left his paternal home and native hills when only eight years of age.
• The personality of his paternal grandfather always remained a total blank to him.
• A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.
• I soon overcame the fear which attended my first experiments in society, and by scrupulously observing the paternal maxims, I soon became very self-satisfied.
• This night I become a wretched wanderer from my paternal roof.
• But soon a cloud came over his face and his paternal heart.
• She could not bear to think that her darling should one day sit cross-legged on the paternal bench, and ply needle and scissors.
• He was defending the Union as he had defended it since the days when I saw Jackson put his arm around him, and look with paternal pride in his eyes.
• After the names have been given, the paternal grandmother goes with the mother and the child to the eastern edge of the mesa, starting so as to arrive about sunrise.

Similar words containing PATERN without suffix al

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