grandmaternal
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Adjective[edit]
grandmaternal (not comparable)
- of or relating to a grandmother
- 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 213:
- Though it was a maternal feeling of a kind she hadn't really known with her own children; perhaps, in fact, a grandmaternal feeling, wise, affectionate, forbearing, soft-hearted, but also a little weary, a little retrospective, a little removed...