fatherly

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   showing the kindness, protectiveness, guidance, or concern associated with a good father

   The older coach offered the nervous player some fatherly advice.

Inherited from Old English faederlic, formed from father + -ly. The adjective moved naturally from literal relation to a father toward the characteristic sense 'kindly protective or guiding.'

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