Definitions
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- noun a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically
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Examples
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Later, Magneto will paint this Nazi as father-figure and refer to him as his creator.
Omer Rosen: X-Men: First Class: Reviewing Magneto and the Super Jews Omer Rosen 2011
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Later, Magneto will paint this Nazi as father-figure and refer to him as his creator.
Omer Rosen: X-Men: First Class: Reviewing Magneto and the Super Jews Omer Rosen 2011
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Mr. Graham-Dixon regards the cardinal as Caravaggio's first "father-figure."
The Misery Memoirist James Hall 2011
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Later, Magneto will paint this Nazi as father-figure and refer to him as his creator.
Omer Rosen: X-Men: First Class: Reviewing Magneto and the Super Jews Omer Rosen 2011
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He's a father-figure to me, he always has been and always will be.
DJ Campbell dreams of England future after driving away the demons 2011
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If you need to conceptualize a supreme being as a big, stick wielding father-figure, here to make you behave ... well, I pity you.
They're Alive: Real Scientific Reasons to Believe in Vampires, Werewolves, and Zombies 2009
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He came to hunting late in life and had no father-figure teaching him these things when he was growing up, so here I am, 25 years his junior, mentoring him into being an ethical hunter, and competent shooter.
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He came to hunting late in life and had no father-figure teaching him these things when he was growing up, so here I am, 25 years his junior, mentoring him into being an ethical hunter, and competent shooter.
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If you need to conceptualize a supreme being as a big, stick wielding father-figure, here to make you behave ... well, I pity you.
They're Alive: Real Scientific Reasons to Believe in Vampires, Werewolves, and Zombies » E-Mail 2009
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Since my return to the ranch, Rollie had become a serious pain in my butt, determined to fill a father-figure role in my life.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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