godfather
noun
a man who serves as sponsor for a child at baptism.
godfatherly
-
a word derived from
godfather.
Example Sentences
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It was Nyerere who brought Amin's downfall by dispatching 20,000 troops into Uganda, and he has watched over the troubled land with a godfatherly eye ever since.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prominent above all other buildings in the town, in the backward view from that godfatherly hill, is the huge St. Anne’s Asylum, housing between four and five hundred children of the poor.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
