In a paternal manner; fatherly.

Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family. / Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father. / Received or inherited from one's father.

The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them and sometimes being stern with them.

fatherhood, being a father / parental descent from a father / (law) legal acknowledgement of a man's fatherhood of a child / (figuratively) authorship

present participle of paternalize

simple past tense and past participle of paternalize

The act or process of paternalizing.

(transitive) To make paternal; to place in a fatherly role.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of paternalize

plural of paternity