Characteristic of what is considered the ideal behaviour pertaining to fatherhood.
fatherly advice
Befitting of a father; protective, paternal.
In a way pertaining to, befitting, or of a father.
Exhorting him fatherlie to giue ouer that course.
From Middle English faderly, from Old English fæderlīċ (“fatherly, paternal”), from Proto-West Germanic *faderlīk, from Proto-Germanic *fadurlīkaz (“fatherly, paternal”), equivalent to father + -ly. C...
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