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Fatherhood   /fˈɑðərhˌʊd/   Listen
Fatherhood

noun
1.
The kinship relation between an offspring and the father.  Synonym: paternity.
2.
God when considered as the first person in the Trinity.  Synonyms: Father, Father-God.
3.
The status of a religious leader.
4.
The status of a father.





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... glory of war, over which the wise men of the East probably journeyed in search of him who was born King of the Jews, over which Mary fled with Christ in her flight into Egypt, and along which the early Christians travelled as they went forth to preach the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of men—is to-day the highway over which is carried on the overland intercourse between the Mediterranean and the ...
— The Road and the Roadside • Burton Willis Potter
... been agreed between him and his wife that the subject of his fatherhood should be approached very carefully, and that, if possible, the disclosure should be reserved for the future, so that it might be made to Eppie gradually. Nancy had urged this, because she felt strongly the painful light in which Eppie must inevitably see the relation between ...
— Silas Marner - The Weaver of Raveloe • George Eliot
... commended the Church of Jesus to the weary and disheartened world in the early years of her triumph, was her power to make her children happy,—happy in the midst of afflictions, happy in the release from the burden of guilt, happy in the sense of Divine Fatherhood and human brotherhood, happy in Christ's victory over sin and death, happy in the assurance of an endless life. At midnight in the prison, Paul and Silas sang praises, and the prisoners heard them. The lateral force of joy,—that was the power ...
— Joy & Power • Henry van Dyke
... elements were introduced into the civilization of the world; elements of kindliness, of compassion, of sympathy of man toward his fellow-man, that up to this time had not been known. There was a new revelation of the brotherhood of all men in the fatherhood of God: "We are all one in ...
— Deaconesses in Europe - and their Lessons for America • Jane M. Bancroft
... love that he's giving freely here for those poor folks a talent that would make him a millionaire, and is running his mines, and his big foundry with Cap Morton besides. It's perfectly splendid to see the way a common fatherhood between him and the men is making a brotherhood. Why, man," cried Amos, "it refreshes one's faith like ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White


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