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noun • a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) • `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military • the founder of a family • (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom • God when considered as the first person in the Trinity • a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization • a person who founds or establishes some institution • the head of an organized crime family verb • make (offspring) by reproduction | ||||||||
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Detectives Brother Fawn Perhaps Crossword Clue
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FATHER which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is:
FATHER
Updated: October 14, 2023
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4 | In accordance with the legal rights of a brother-in-law to marry his deceased brother's widow | |
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7 | The brother in "Am I my brother's keeper?"
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