To God, according to Judaism, is attributed the fatherly role of protector.

However, he had no children of his own and did not want to play a fatherly role.

"He has a fatherly role, not to promote himself, but to promote the city."

Pedophiles often assume fatherly roles, reassuring pages living far from their parents.

Whitman often assumed a fatherly or avuncular role with those men.

Ikariya, however, had won the public's adoration by then and played a variety of fatherly roles on television and in movies.

He has mostly taken over the fatherly role with Spencer after Gideon's departure.

As a result of these power shifts Townsend's ideology was adapted and post controversy, he played a more passive, fatherly role.

In his opinion, teachers should have a fatherly role in the eyes of their students in order for education to be the most effective.

He'd only admit he'd erred in his fatherly role.