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Definition of Maternalistic
1. Adjective. Showing maternal instincts.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maternalistic
Literary usage of Maternalistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association, Isaac Franklin Russell (1907)
"In great centres, especially, is the government becoming not only paternalistic,
but maternalistic and filial and fraternal in that it has come to undertake ..."
2. The Springfield Survey: Study of Social Conditions in an American City by Shelby Millard Harrison, Russell Sage Foundation Dept. of Surveys and Exhibits, Springfield Survey Committee (Springfield, Ill.) (1918)
"When the age of adolescence approaches, boys and girls alike rebel against the
maternalistic atmosphere of the elementary schools and are filled with the ..."
3. Principles of Secondary Education by Alexander James Inglis (1918)
"In the elementary school, even in the last grades, pupils are under a maternalistic
system of supervision and control, I discipline is a matter of rules, ..."
4. Laggards in Our Schools: A Study of Retardation and Elimination in City by Leonard Porter Ayres (1913)
"He begins to resent the maternalistic atmosphere of the lower grammar grades.
He becomes discouraged through his lack of success and, when he has passed the ..."
5. The Public Schools of Springfield, Illinois: Educational Section of the by Leonard Porter Ayres (1914)
"When the age of adolescence approaches, boys and girls alike rebel against the
maternalistic atmosphere of the elementary schools and are filled with the ..."
6. The French in the Heart of America by John Huston Finley (1915)
"... self-dependent, and interdependent pioneers, gathered about one highly
paternalistic or maternalistic institution—the public school. ..."
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