0 used to describe a man or male behaviour typical of a kind and loving father: --
fatherly advice
1 typical of a kind or caring father --
He's fallen in love with her over years of ghostly observation, fatherly attention turning to infatuation.
He seems fatherly to the twins, having known them from birth.
The fact that the police are able in this way to deal with these lads in this fatherly, almost family, way is a great feather in their cap.
We want less of the great-grandfather attitude on the bench, and a little more of the fatherly attitude, in dealing with the unfortunate people who come before our courts.
He has taken the roads under his fatherly care; he looks upon himself as occupying a specially created post of godfather in regard to roads.
However, a friendship grew up— it could hardly have been otherwise—because of his integrity, experience and fatherly attitude towards someone much younger.
One can perhaps picture a fatherly chief constable giving advice to an officer who has just entered the force.
I have heard with astonishment the declarations from the benches opposite—their sudden fatherly interest in the children.
