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What is the adverb for paternalist?

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paternally
  1. In a paternal manner; fatherly.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Groups 3 and 4, 8 and 9, and 10 and 11 were paternally related half-siblings.”
      “He is taller than me now, and likes to put his arm paternally around my shoulder.”
      “He blessed me by making a cross on my forehead and by tapping me paternally on the cheek.”
paternalistically
  1. In a paternalistic manner.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We act very paternalistically toward them, and they don't develop a lot of self-determining, autonomous decision-making skills.”
      “In this feudalistic culture, a budget is the means by which a state can extract taxes from the rich to paternalistically give to the poor.”
      “Car dealers paternalistically claim they are protecting consumers from making bad choices about complex products.”
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