Unfatherly

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not fatherly; unpaternal.

    "Shall we come thus far, and in such post haste, And have our children here, and both within, And not behold them e’er our back-return? It were unfriendly, and unfatherly."

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unpaternalunpaternal

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"Shall we come thus far, and in such post haste, And have our children here, and both within, And not behold them e’er our back-return? It were unfriendly, and unfatherly."

Etymology

From un- + fatherly.

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