Grand″fa″ther‐ly, a. Like a grandfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent.
He was a grandfatherly sort of personage. Hawthorne.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.