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adjective

Parental adj.

Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations; parental affection.

Becoming to, or characteristic of, parents; tender; affectionate; devoted; as, parental care. "The careful course and parental provision of nature."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Parental" Quotes from Famous Books

... had suffered a disastrous failure in business. He was the oldest son; and in the hope of retrieving the lost fortune, he resolved to go West, expecting to return in a few years and share his riches with the rest of the family. Anticipating parental opposition, he ran away from home; and, being sure that he could never accumulate anything with so numerous a family to support, he endeavored to lose himself by a change of name. All this Ann had believed and not repeated; but ...

— McClure's Magazine, Volume VI, No. 3. February 1896 • Various

... are in America no small number of individuals whose circumstances, by parental gift or marriage endowments, are similar to those of our dear friend, Ann Carroll Smith. I would there were a host prepared, like her and her noble husband, to do sacrifice of their substance on the altar ...

— A Visit To The United States In 1841 • Joseph Sturge

... alive and in heaven, may it be no part of your immortality to look down upon the world ye have left. For as all these sufferers and cripples are as much your family as young Abel, so, to you, the sight of the world's woes would be a parental torment indeed. ...

— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville

... Olivia’s father, and he mockingly rebuked Marian Devereux for having encouraged an infraction of parental discipline, while she was twitting him upon the loss of his wager. Then her eyes rested upon me for the first time. She smiled slightly, but continued talking placidly to her host. The situation did not please me; I had not traveled so far and ...

— The House of a Thousand Candles • Meredith Nicholson

... of those children whose wild artist nature chafes under the restraints of home and school life. Generous to a fault, the life and soul of her companions, yet to control her taxed to their utmost the parental resources; and it must be admitted she was the torment of her teachers. Her wild exuberant spirits overleaped the bounds of school life, and sometimes made order and discipline difficult of enforcement. She was never known to tell an untruth, ...

— Mary Anderson • J. M. Farrar

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