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Dad :: Dad (n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.

Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no father; fatherless; hence, born contrary to nature..

Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To argue in support of a claim, or in defense against the claim of another; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father..

Origenism :: Origenism (n.) The opinions of Origen of Alexandria, who lived in the 3d century, one of the most learned of the Greek Fathers. Prominent in his teaching was the doctrine that all created beings, including Satan, will ultimately be saved..

Fatherly :: Fatherly (a.) Of or pertaining to a father.

Tritheism :: Tritheism (n.) The opinion or doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct Gods..

Forbear :: Forbear (n.) An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.

Fathership :: Fathership (n.) The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.

Agnate :: Agnate (a.) Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor..

Godfather :: Godfather (n.) A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction..

Father-in-law :: Father-in-law (n.) The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Stepparent :: Stepmother (n.) The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.

Gavelkind :: Gavelkind (n.) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent..

Homoousian :: Homoousian (n.) One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian..

Half Blood :: Half blood (n.) A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed.

Favor :: Favor (n.) To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father..

Stephanion :: Stepfather (n.) The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.

#NAME? :: -less () A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless..

Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience..

Orbate :: Orbate (a.) Bereaved; fatherless; childless.

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