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Di pleaded, using her pet name for Father, which he likes because it sounds young and unparental.

From Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)

It became a pleasure with the German author, that the very same works which elevated himself, wreaked his nation upon their princes, and poured retorted scorn upon their most ungenerous and unparental sovereigns.

From Biographical Essays by De Quincey, Thomas