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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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"Fatherhood" Quotes from Famous Books



... and material well-being, one ought to renounce them all at once. It was not with a purpose to rejoin my folk that I first determined to return to my native country. For, while I believe in the Family, I hate Familism, which is the curse of the human race. And I hate this spiritual Fatherhood when it puts on the garb of a priest, the three-cornered hat of a Jesuit, the hood of a monk, the gaberdine of a rabbi, or the jubbah of a sheikh. The sacredness of the Individual, not of the Family or the Church, do I proclaim. For Familism, or the propensity ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani

... others as themselves. As to the world at large: the races dominant in religion and morals have been lifted from the idea of a "chosen people" stimulated and abetted by their tribal god in every sort of cruelty and injustice, to the conception of a vast community in which the fatherhood of God overarches all, and the ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

... smothering his mirth at the recollection, perhaps, that the prisoner's purse was not exhausted. "I only laughed because you said you were Sir Geoffrey's son. But no matter—'tis a wise child that knows his own father. And here is Sir Geoffrey's cell; so you and he may settle the fatherhood ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott

... different position with regard to Lewisham. The history of his encounter with love and the world, published in 1900, covers a period of four or five years, but while we leave him down-at-heel, with a wife and a mother-in-law dependent upon him, and the prospect of fatherhood adding to his responsibilities, we are uncertain whither his career will take him. Lewisham is the first sketch for the type that was to be elaborated in five subsequent books. The allurements of his ...
— H. G. Wells • J. D. Beresford

... no one in whom to trust, or from whom to draw comfort; her confessor was a man of the world, incapable of leading her to any fountain of living water; she had no one to tell her of God and his fatherhood, the only and perfect refuge from ...
— What's Mine's Mine • George MacDonald


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