Search Result for "paternal quality":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father;
- Example: "the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears"
[syn: fatherliness, paternal quality]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

paternal quality
    n 1: the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father;
         "the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man
         eased her fears" [syn: fatherliness, paternal quality]