[f. FATHER sb. + -LY2.] In a fatherly manner, as a father; with a father’s care and affection.

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a. 1500.  Orol. Sap., in Anglia, X. 364. I am so fadirly admonestid.

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1589.  Pasquil’s Return, D ij. Exhorting him fatherlie to giue ouer that course.

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a. 1723.  I. Mather, Vind. New Eng., in Andros Tracts, II. (1869), 27. God hath for a while Fatherly Chastised them by those Rods.

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c. 1848.  Lowell, The Changeling.

        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.

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1853.  Mrs. Browning, Poems, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point, vii.

        Indeed we live beneath the sky,
  That great smooth Hand of God stretched out
On all his children fatherly,
  To save them from the dread and doubt.

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