All 3 Uses of
paternal
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- The scent, the smile, but, more than these, the dark eyes and oleaginous address, brought home at duskfall many a commission to the head of the firm, seated with Jacob's pipe after like labours in the paternal ingle (a meal of noodles, you may be sure, is aheating), reading through round horned spectacles some paper from the Europe of a month before.†
Chpt 14
- Now he is himself paternal and these about him might be his sons.†
Chpt 14 *
- From maturity to senility he would increasingly resemble his paternal procreator.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(paternal as in: paternal attitude) kindness and concern like that of a father -- sometimes implying that it is overly intrusive