Crossword-Solution: PATERNAL 8 letters, 77 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Paternal a. Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the
disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as,
paternal care.
Paternal a. Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a
paternal estate.

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PATERNAL anagram PARENTAL, PRENATAL

We have 77 clues for the answer “PATERNAL”

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characteristic of a father 1 answer
belonging to or inherited from one's father 1 answer
Solicitous, in a way 1 answer
Relating to father 1 answer
Protective, perhaps 1 answer
Parental anagram 1 answer
Like some uncles 1 answer
Kind of grandparent 1 answer
Kind of ancestor 1 answer
Advice such as Polonius' "To thine own self be true" 1 answer
Related on the father's side 2 answers
like a father 2 answers
FATHER (pert. to) 2 answers
Protective in a way 2 answers
On Dad's side 3 answers
Parental 4 answers
poppy 6 answers
Kind of advice 6 answers
BE SOLICITOUS 10 answers
agnate 22 answers
matriarchal 30 answers
matrilineal 31 answers
ethnocentric 31 answers
divisional 31 answers
territorial 33 answers
Autochthonous 34 answers
freeing 35 answers
motherly 35 answers
redeeming 35 answers
rescuing 36 answers
safeguarding 36 answers
protective 36 answers
protecting 36 answers
preventing 36 answers
sustaining 36 answers
liberating 36 answers
transmissible 36 answers
custodial 36 answers
Sisterly 36 answers
COMPENSATORY ___ 36 answers
defending 37 answers
bequeathed 37 answers
pardoning 37 answers
preserving 37 answers
brotherly 37 answers
topical 38 answers
Hereditary 38 answers
screening 38 answers
connatural 38 answers
Immunisation 39 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PATERNAL (5)

Silence, ye troubl’d waves, and thou Deep, peace, Said then th’ Omnific Word, your discord end: Nor staid, but on the Wings of Cherubim Uplifted, in Paternal Glorie rode Farr into _Chaos_, and the World unborn; For _Chaos_ heard his voice: him all his Traine Follow’d in bright procession to behold Creation, and the wonders of his might.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Standing on that miserable eminence, she saw again her native village, in Old England, and her paternal home: a decayed house of grey stone, with a poverty-stricken aspect, but retaining a half obliterated shield of arms over the portal, in token of antique gentility.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Ichabod Crane had a soft and foolish heart towards the sex; and it is not to be wondered at that so tempting a morsel soon found favor in his eyes, more especially after he had visited her in her paternal mansion.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving 1992
Instead of permitting considerable local autonomy as the British did, the Spanish Council of the Indies in Madrid assumed a stance of illiberal, paternal, bureaucratic control.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
When that shall happen, I desire no other revenge than your acceptance of the best offices in my power to do you.” With a bow to Hepzibah, and a degree of paternal benevolence in his parting nod to Phœbe, the Judge left the shop, and went smiling along the street.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with PATERNAL (3)

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine, one of the nation, of many nations, the smallest the same and the the largest
Walt Whitman Song of Myself
It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.
John Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (1972–2014).