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Definition: Fatherliness |
FatherlinessNoun1. The benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father: "the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fatherliness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Note: Fatherliness \Fa"ther*li*ness\, noun. [From Fatherly.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: FatherlinessSynonym: paternal quality (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fatherliness |
| English words defined with "fatherliness": paternal quality. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The old man spoke little, and at times looked upon her with an unutterable expression of fatherliness. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "fatherliness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | isällisyys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | väterlichkeit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | πατρικότητα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אב"ות (fatherhood, parentage, paternity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | ayroilid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atherlinessfay babacanlık, babacan tavırlar. (various references) tính nhân từ như cha, tính hiền hậu như cha. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fatherliness": fatherlinesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "fatherliness" (pronounced 'Fa"ther*li*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-h-i-l-n-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: earthliness. | |
-2 letters: earthiness, fatherless, heartiness, reinflates. | |
-3 letters: alertness, arsenites, asthenies, earliness, elaterins, enlisters, entailers, essential, faithless, fasteners, fenestral, flaneries, flashiest, fleshiest, frailness, hasteners, heartless, heftiness, herniates, infesters, inflaters, irateness, listeners, litheness, natheless, nearliest, ratfishes, reenlists, refastens, reinflate, resinates, shinleafs, snarliest, stearines, tarnishes, treenails. | |
-4 letters: alieners, antheses, anthesis, arenites, arsenite, artiness, assenter, ateliers, earliest, earnests. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-h-i-l-n-r-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: fatherlinesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 74 68 65 72 6C 69 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- - .... . .-. .-.. .. -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a t h e r l i n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0074 0068 0065 0072 006C 0069 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)406786747184787580718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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