paternal

Will he find the paternal figure he's been looking for?

He smiled for the first time, seemed almost paternal now.

I asked about a paternal leave policy; there was none.

Moreover he was beginning to feel paternal toward the young American.

There's a good reason the family lines follow the paternal side.

Hands as symbols of paternal power, he said, were not common.

He was left in the care of his paternal grandmother.

Nevertheless, she had a good relationship with her paternal family.

Now he is himself paternal and these about him might be his sons.

But he said his interest in Amy was paternal and never sexual.

We have seen it as the organ of paternal government.

Here, she met her paternal grandparents for the first time.

The baby, a daughter, was taken care of by her paternal grandmother.

It is carried by every member of the paternal family.

It all seemed rather beyond the call of paternal duty.

It seems there are two other paternal candidates she has never heard of.

In these families, there is no paternal secret to protect.

They had a real kind of paternal love for him."

This was the kind of paternal treatment which everybody understood.

She grew up in the home of her paternal grandmother.

My paternal grandfather died of a heart attack in his 40's.

No, I simply cannot imagine the paternal reaction to such knowledge.

However, it is possible to use both the paternal and maternal name.

The first born is given the name of his paternal grandfather.

In a few countries the most common type is between paternal cousins.