"auntly" meaning in English

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      "form": "more auntly",
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          "text": "The legacy Martineau offers to Eliot is auntly in the terms of my definition, because it is simultaneously gratuitous and enabling.",
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          "text": "He watched the auntly lady twist the ends of the diaper so that the whole assemblage seemed to wrap itself around his boy like magic.",
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        "In the manner of an aunt."
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