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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

... most hurtful to those we fervently desire to aid. We should never indulge or encourage weakness in others when we can in any way stimulate it into strength. We should never do anything for another which we can inspire him to do for himself. Much parental affection errs at this point. Life is made too easy for children. They are sheltered when it were better if they faced the storm. They are saved from toil and exertion, when toil and exertion are God's ordained means of grace for them, of ...

— Making the Most of Life • J. R. Miller

... Indian lovers varies with the tribes. One pair of lovers seal their vows by standing a little removed from the parental lodge, with a blanket covering their heads. In another tribe the negotiations are made entirely through the parents, when the transaction resolves itself into a barter, so many ponies for a bride; while in still another tribe, when a love fancy strikes a young man, ...

— The Vanishing Race • Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon

... this connection, that the rules that prevail, that every man is entitled to freedom from parental authority at twenty-one years of age, and no one before that age, are of the same class of absurdities with those that have been mentioned. The only ground on which a parent is ever entitled to exercise authority over his child, is that the child ...

— An Essay on the Trial By Jury • Lysander Spooner

... up of the many-sided evils of polygamy was thus presented by President Cleveland in his first annual message:— "The strength, the perpetuity, and the destiny of the nation rests upon our homes, established by the law of God, guarded by parental care, regulated by parental authority, and sanctified by parental love. These are not the ...

— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn

... cut up too much, You love the dance and cup too much, Your years are quickly flitting— To your knitting, Right about! Forget the incidental things That keep you from parental things— The World, the Flesh, the Devil, On the level, Cut ...

— Tobogganing On Parnassus • Franklin P. Adams

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