Definition of "fatherlike" []

• Having the qualities of a father (adjective)

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• ""He means a huge amount to her and fulfills a fatherlike role, which she has never really had," Clarke says."
• "He went on to say that he considered the belief in a God who was a fatherlike figure to be the result of “childish analogies.”"
• "There was something frighteningly fatherlike about her."