Both Uses
paternal
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- She died giving birth to him, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother in Lithuania while his father strutted through the Party Central Committee in Vilnius, awaiting his promotion to Moscow.†
Chpt 1. *
- In the formative years of his life, while the elder Ramius ruled the Lithuanian Party Central Committee in Vilnius, the motherless boy was raised by his paternal grandmother, common practice in a country savaged by four years of brutal war.†
Chpt 3.
Definitions:
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(1)
(paternal as in: paternal grandmother) related to a father; or characteristic of fathers
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(2)
(paternal as in: paternal attitude) kindness and concern like that of a father -- sometimes implying that it is overly intrusive
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)