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paternal

Paternal is the adjective related to the noun 'father'. A paternal inheritance is one which comes from your father.

paternal

belonging to or inherited from one's father spent his childhood on the paternal farm paternal traits characteristic of a father (= parental) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent parental guidance related on the father's side a paternal aunt

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He's my father's father. He's my paternal grandpa.
She is my father's mother. She is my paternal grandmother.
Tom's paternal grandparents live in Australia.

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You simply don't want to come, that's why the paternal act.
The paternal watch that ticks away your life minute by minute.
I was a great friend of your paternal grandmother, Mrs. DeWitt Lawrence.
I know, but in this case. I'm obeying necessity and not just paternal wishes.
I also had paternal grandparents who couldn't afford to keep me.
Gamblers are so cold-blooded and greedy, you wouldn't think they'd have paternal feelings.
When I'm not being woken at 3:00 in the morning, I feel very paternal.
Courageous, strong Ermette, who left the paternal fields to make the sea your home, we will miss you.
And, gentlemen, may i tell you it was your proverbial love at first sight. Paternal, of course.
It is the Shaolin belief that the paternal line controls.
They say the cult of the night, of the moon is a maternal cult. The cult of the sun, of daytime is a masculine myth, therefore paternal.
Listen, Daddy, with your paternal authority.
Paternal authority of shit, as a bonus.
At times like these the paternal figure can be very important.
Everything that you say may be very interesting, but as far as paternal love goes, I have my doubts.
The sentiment for the one who was my wife and the duty for the society make me look for the paternal happiness, you refused me.
Father! Be more merciful, I beseech you and do not let your paternal authority drive matters to extremes.
My father, I beseech you, in the name of paternal love.
It's the paternal instinct, Penny.
Paternal advice.
He has this irrepressible paternal instinct toward me.
Why so paternal suddenly?
My father and paternal grandmother spent their nights caring for her.
Thus my paternal grandmother paid for Mother's property.
Freudian paternal relations etc.
He who cannot preserve his paternal inheritance, will die in want, even though he had a demon at his service.
I hope you'll excuse my paternal egoism if I ask my daughter to sing for us.
He says. If you allow this paternal manner.
He's Lithuanian by birth, raised by his paternal grandfather, a fisherman.
A clear-cut case of Paternal Conflict Syndrome.
A happiness bound and subjected to paternal desire.
She made her paternal transference.

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The proper economic policy was to teach people to venerate the throne (so that they would respect property), the paternal hearth (so that they would not marry imprudently young), and the religious altar (so that they would fear pre-marital sex).
Given entrenched gender segregation and paternal dominance, this finding appears to reveal a strong desire for greater individual choice in what has traditionally been a family-driven decision.

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