grandsonly

comparative more grandsonly · superlative most grandsonly

1. Relating to or characteristic of a grandson.

   It’s a cinch J. P. Morgan’s talk with Wilson wasn’t all grandsonly.

   1915 January 30, Tulsa Daily World, volume X, number 111, Tulsa, Okla., page four

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   In writing to the Kaiser that he must withdraw that Kruger telegram, Grandma Victoria runs the risk of being told a conventional piece of grandsonly advice.

   1896 January 8, Scranton Tribune, Scranton, Pa., page 4

   You would be disappointed if you visited some of these Yorkshire towns expecting to find every man cherishing his neighbour like a brother or loving the Departments of State with a grandsonly love.

   1913, The National Review, volume LX, page 600

   Finally, let her pray that a miracle ma ybe^([sic]) vouchsafed her so that she will understand that she is no longer a fascinator and heart smasher, and that no man has any interest in her except in a grandsonly way.

   1914 April 21, Dorothy Dix [pen name; Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer], “Of Interest to Women: Growing Old Gracefully”, in The Lancaster Intelligencer, volume L, number 195, Lancaster, Pa., page 5

   Standpatism is the clarified quintescence^([sic]) of social sin. To desire to be as good as one’s father is a laudable ambition, but the standpatter is bitterly opposed to being any better. He is determined to carry grandfatherly virtues into a grandsonly age. This is the ideal which for centuries has held progress bound in China. The son who is only as good as his father is worse than his father, for the father practiced the virtues of his time, while the son fell behind his.

   1915, Proceedings: Sixteenth National Convention of the Anti-Saloon League of America, page 505

   Lodwig said he bought John a kite after a little grandsonly insistance,^([sic]) and John showed him how to put it together.

   1965 May 2, “Young Kite Flier Up 9 Floors”, in The Sunday Oklahoman, volume 74, number 117, Oklahoma City, Okla.: Oklahoma Publishing Co., page 18