Word Meanings - PATERNAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care. "Under paternal rule." Milton. 2. Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate. Their

Additional info about word: PATERNAL

1. Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care. "Under paternal rule." Milton. 2. Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate. Their small paternal field of corn. Dryden. Paternal government , the assumption by the governing power of a quasi-fatherly relation to the people, involving strict and intimate supervision of their business and social concerns, upon the theory that they are incapable of managing their own afffairs.

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• UNDERPLOT
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• UNDERNICENESS
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• UNDERSOIL
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• UNDERDOLVEN
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• UNDERNIME
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