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paternal uncle

n. A brother or brother-in-law of one's father.

Usage examples of "paternal uncle".

At six, my grandfather took me to the fort at Moonseye, and there turned me over to my paternal uncle, Verity Farseer.

Left the country three days after he had paid his debt to society, staked by his paternal Uncle Benjamin, now deceased.

Karl Heinz von Heurten-Mitnitz, his paternal uncle, had witnessed the German humiliation at Compi&amp.

His first chancellor was his paternal uncle, though he's lately died.

His first chancellor was his paternal uncle, though hes lately died.

This was a greater source of anxiety to him as it was to Antigonus the son of Echecrates, who bore the name of his paternal uncle, Antigonus.

But his appointment had resulted at least as much from his pliancy, and from the fact that Lord Regent Cheldring Tarsteng Brant was his paternal uncle.

Ordinarily, I'd have ripped Bautista's fucking head off for that paternal uncle shit.

She regretted their deaths, certainly, for she had been fond of her mother, and several of her brothers and sisters, and one paternal uncle.