Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pining for one's father.
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Examples
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Something more than woman, an angel, in some things; but a baby in others: so father-sick! so family-fond! —
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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-- Something more than woman, an angel, in some things; but a baby in others: so father-sick! so family-fond!
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725
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