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Definition of Maternal quality

1. Noun. The quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother. "The girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maternal Quality

Literary usage of Maternal quality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Play in Education by Joseph Lee (1915)
"Father Abraham won out very largely on the maternal quality of his great heart. In his play of " Man and Superman," Bernard Shaw has humorously presented ..."

2. The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden--1865-1900 by Thomas Dixon (1902)
"Well, you fooled yourself then about its maternal quality. The magnet of my red head drew your coal black one down to it with irresistible power. ..."

3. New Mexico, the Land of the Delight Makers: The History of Its Ancient Cliff by George Wharton James (1920)
"One can feel its cooling shade, and there is an inviting, almost maternal quality in its outspreading branches, that the artist must have felt ere he so ..."

4. The Dynamics of Living Matter by Jacques Loeb (1906)
"... if such an egg is hybridized with the sperm of a form whose egg is unpigmented, the larva will, of course, possess a "maternal" quality which is due ..."

5. The Unity of the Organism; Or, The Organismal Conception of Life by William Emerson Ritter (1919)
"... the larva will, of course, possess a 'maternal' quality which is due solely to the protoplasm (Driesch)".10 And in the same connection, Loeb continues: ..."

6. The Unity of the Organism; Or, The Organismal Conception of Life by William Emerson Ritter (1919)
"... the larva will, of course, possess a 'maternal' quality which is due solely to the protoplasm (Driesch)".10 And in the same connection, Loeb continues: ..."

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