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fatherhood

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Fatherhood has been the greatest challenge of my life. ▪ Jerry doesn't take the responsibilities of fatherhood very seriously. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the story is a dramatic celebration of fatherhood , and dads everywhere ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., faderhade ; see father (n.) + -hood .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the kinship relation between an offspring and the father [syn: paternity ] God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father" [syn: Father , Father-God ] the status of a religious leader the status of a father

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fatherhood \Fa"ther*hood\, n. The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fatherhood is an American animated television series revolving around the Bindlebeep family and various happenings, inspired by the book of the same name by Bill Cosby . This was Nick at Nite 's first original animated series. It has aired on Nick at Nite ...

Usage examples of fatherhood.

But directly we observe, under the microscope, the facts of development, we discover that each parent contributes an exactly equal share to the making of the new individual, and all the ancient and modern ideas of the superior value of well-selected fatherhood fall to the ground.

Though finding, as we do, that the little boy enjoys playing with his dolls as his sister does, we refrain from buying dolls for him, and may indeed, underestimating the importance of human fatherhood, declare that dolls are beneath the dignity of a boy though good enough for his sister.

Eton will be education as for fatherhood, yet the ideal of education as for motherhood may yet triumph wherever girls are taught within even a few years to come.

What we call, then, the greater fastidiousness of the female sex is a definite sex character, and has a definite racial value, raising the standard of fatherhood where it is allowed free play.

These natural causes of widowhood, as they may be called, are greatly aggravated by the destructive influence of alcohol upon fatherhood, as will be shown in the chapter dealing with alcohol and womanhood.

Often, as we have seen, there is no corresponding fatherhood, for the mother may be a widow, or unmarried and unable to find the father.

But where the corresponding fatherhood exists, we fly directly in the face of Nature, we deny the consistent teaching of evolution as the study of sub-human life reveals it to us, if we do not turn to the father and say, this is your act, for which you are responsible.

The time has come when fatherhood, whether within marriage or without it, must be reckoned a deliberate, provident, foreseen, all-important, responsible act, for which the father must always be held to account.

There can be no compromise, nothing but a fight to the finish, between the principle of endowing motherhood by making fatherhood less responsible, and the principle here fought for, of endowing motherhood by making fatherhood more responsible.

They simply practise responsible fatherhood, and the mothers and children are protected.

By nothing else will this arrest be so accelerated as by those very measures for making fatherhood more responsible for the care of motherhood, which are here advocated.

It is completely forgotten that, just as parenthood, both fatherhood and motherhood, demands more of the individual as we rise in the scale of animal evolution, so, within our own species, the same holds good.

The death of fathers: When a father dies, his fatherhood is returned to the All-Father, who is the sum of all dead fathers taken together.

The fatherhood is returned to the All-Father, first because that is where it belongs and second in order that it may be denied to you.

In the heady flush of expectant fatherhood, Eddie had lapped up those oily words, believing as only he could that everything was possible.