avuncularism
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editavuncularism (uncountable)
- An avuncular attitude.
- 1952, Harry Hopkins, New world arising:
- Their heavy paternalism was in some ways a better thing than the slapdash, half-bogus fraternalism of the French, or the priggish avuncularism of the British.