grandmaternal en · ADJ
Etymology
From grand- + maternal.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) of or relating to a grandmother
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...
2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 213: