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What does fatherlike mean?

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Adjective
  1. having the qualities of a father
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Dad was in there too, reading the paper or tinkering with our forever-malfunctioning refrigerator or something kitcheny and fatherlike.
Peacefully on 25th March 2011, aged 62 years, Grahame Lee, dearly loved brother of Iris, fatherlike uncle of James and Annee, also a brotherlike cousin.
A heavyweight champion by the age of 20, Tyson's fatherlike figure D'Amato had already passed away.
Then Howie meets Big John, who becomes like a fatherlike figure to him.
I know that there are some true luthiers who build guitars with passion, with a certain fatherlike affection, one by one, transfering to them their personality, their lirism, their creative will.
In Freudian terms, Bertha is the evil-mother figure who prevents Jane's sexual union with the fatherlike Rochester.

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