"fathren" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From father + -en, after brethren. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|father|en<id:plural noun>}} father + -en Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} fathren
  1. (humorous, nonstandard, rare) plural of father Tags: form-of, humorous, nonstandard, plural, rare Form of: father
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          "ref": "1998 March 19, Wugi, “Calling the single currency names”, in talk.politics.european-union (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Jun 2026:",
          "text": "Every day our ears are stuffed with news about the tough conditions for joining the European Union's single currency. Busy as they were to force things into being, the politicians only lately were getting concerned about the question which name to call the currency, since ECU [European Currency Unit], which everybody had get used to in the mean time, was banned by EMU [Economic and Monetary Union]. Not at ease in calling for their creative wits they remained stuck with the trivial epithet \"Euro\", which by then a good deal of Europeans had turned nEurotic at. The thought that Eurogene in the street might also develop some idea if asked for didn't of course occur to the tired fathren. Well, if it had, maybe this Eurogene would have participated thus.",
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          "ref": "2006 October 15, Geiserik, “The events in the Book of Mormom^([sic]) has^([sic]) happened in real”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet), archived from the original on 19 Jun 2026:",
          "text": "The text that Nephi wrote a reformed Egytian in the way of his fathren, makes me even think, tht^([sic]) he was not the son, but the sun of law from Lehi.",
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          "text": "But this text comes as well from the Bible, spoken by Jeremiah / 2 C[h]ron[icles] 36:16 Jaweh,^([sic]) de God of your fathren did send repetedly^([sic]) to repremind^([sic]) them",
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          "text": "My issue, for the sake of Baha'i unity, is that they need to understand and accept that I believe as I believe and I am a member of their religion, just as I must accept them as members of my religion. When we can all do that, the Faith will not be exclusivist. It will include any and all who can accept the Covenant of Baha'u'llah as they perceive He [God] intended the Covenant to be. And we will be a happy family, hopefully familiar with the beliefs of our brethren and sistrene and mothrene and fathren, (never studied Greek, okay, I know its^([sic]) Germanic).",
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          "text": "I agree that the situation in both countries (and there are more like that...) is uncomfortable when rights of the \"natives\" are concerned. You cannot blame the current generations for the actions of their fathren, nor can you move white people out of their possessions just like that. But you cannot blame natives to feel robbed off their rights and land.",
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