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What does paternally mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word paternally? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. In a paternal manner; fatherly.
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When you had reached her, you paternally placed your two consecrated hands on her head.
It also entails the replacement, at least partially, of cold, ruthless, impartial legal discourse with a firm but paternally supportive discourse.
The unequal expression in mammals of some maternally and paternally derived genes known as genomic imprinting reduces the masking benefits of diploidy.
He said this so solemnly and paternally, it sounded like the eleventh commandment.
Groups 3 and 4, 8 and 9, and 10 and 11 were paternally related half-siblings.
He blessed me by making a cross on my forehead and by tapping me paternally on the cheek.

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