Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a paternal manner; in the manner of a father.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a paternal manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
paternal manner;fatherly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a paternal manner
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Examples
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This molecular counting strategy can, in principle, be applicable to all forms of monogenic diseases, namely paternally or maternally inherited, autosomal dominant diseases and autosomal recessive diseases with any combination of parental mutations.
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This molecular counting strategy can, in principle, be applicable to all forms of monogenic diseases, namely paternally or maternally inherited, autosomal dominant diseases and autosomal recessive diseases with any combination of parental mutations.
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In the rest of the episode there was much busting of chops, paternally and otherwise.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Our Fathers, Ourselves: Treme and Mentors Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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In the rest of the episode there was much busting of chops, paternally and otherwise.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Our Fathers, Ourselves: Treme and Mentors Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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In the rest of the episode there was much busting of chops, paternally and otherwise.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Our Fathers, Ourselves: Treme and Mentors Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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"What's the matter, little one?" he asked pettingly and almost paternally.
A WICKED WOMAN 2010
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In retrospect, it appears we required a developed and reflexive feminist, gay and transgendered global vision to see through the prejudice governing sexuality, gender, ethnicity and the legislative restraints that paternally impose on enculturation and self-identification.
G. Roger Denson: Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler G. Roger Denson 2011
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In the rest of the episode there was much busting of chops, paternally and otherwise.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Our Fathers, Ourselves: Treme and Mentors Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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In retrospect, it appears we required a developed and reflexive feminist, gay and transgendered global vision to see through the prejudice governing sexuality, gender, ethnicity and the legislative restraints that paternally impose on enculturation and self-identification.
G. Roger Denson: Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler G. Roger Denson 2011
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At the time, mtDNA (which is passed maternally) was the only alternative, but now Y-DNA (which is passed paternally) can also be used.
Megan Smolenyak: USS Monitor: Could William Bryan Be One of the Skeletons in the Turret? Megan Smolenyak 2011
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