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paternal
c.1433, from O.Fr.
paternal
"of a father" (12c.), from M.L.
paternalis,
from L.
paternus
"of a father," from
pater
(see
father
).
Paternalism
"government as by a father over his children" is first recorded 1881;
paternalistic
was in use by 1890.
