fatherly

adj

1. Characteristic of what is considered the ideal behaviour pertaining to fatherhood.

   “fatherly advice”

2. Befitting of a father; protective, paternal.

adv

1. In a way pertaining to, befitting, or of a father.

   “Exhorting him fatherlie to giue ouer that course.”

   “[…]; tho’ God hath for a while Fatherly Chaſtiſed them by thoſe Rods which he hath afterwards conſumed.”

   “This child is not mine as the first was, / I cannot sing it to rest, / I cannot lift it up fatherly / And bliss it upon my breast;”

   “Indeed we live beneath the sky, . . / That great smooth Hand of God, stretched out / On all His children fatherly, / To bless them from the fear and doubt, / Which would be, if, from this low place, / All opened straight up to His face / Into the grand eternity.”

   “He looked fatherly at me.”