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Definition of Maternalism

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"

2. Noun. Motherly care; behavior characteristic of a mother; the practice of acting as a mother does toward her children.

Definition of Maternalism

1. Noun. the treatment of people in a motherly manner, especially by caring for them as a mother would care for her children. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maternalism

maternal language maternal mRNA maternal mortality maternal mortality rate maternal placenta maternal quality maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein maternal uncle maternal uncles maternal welfare

maternalisation maternalise maternalised maternalises maternalising maternalism (current term) maternalist maternalistic maternalists maternalization

maternalize maternalized maternalizes maternalizing maternally maternities maternity maternity bra maternity bras maternity hospital

Literary usage of Maternalism

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

1. Parenthood and Race Culture: An Outline of Eugenics by Caleb Williams Saleeby (1909)
"... MARRIAGE AND maternalism OUR present concern is the relation of marriage to race-culture, and for this purpose we must investigate an epoch ages before ..."

2. The Underlying Principles of Modern Legislation by William Jethro Brown (1920)
"For the purposes of discussion, I shall deal with parental government under the two heads of maternalism and paternalism. parable sense of beauty. ..."

3. Lectures on the Harvard Classics by William Allan Neilson (1914)
"... a governmental paternalism or even maternalism may become proper, which would have seemed intolerable to thinkers in the last century. ..."

4. Report of the Proceedings of the National Conference on Infantile Mortality (1908)
"... even before they are put to the experimental test, by this sole criterion of their conformity to. the principle which I would call maternalism. ..."

5. Letters to Farmers' Sons on the Questions of the Day: Being Familiar Talks by Henry Seymour Chase (1891)
"He is tied to his mother's apron strings ": that is maternalism. " He can do nothing without his daddy:" that is PATERNALISM. Those conditions are proper to ..."

6. Principles of Secondary Education by Alexander James Inglis (1918)
"... however, for the sudden and abrupt change within four months from the maternalism of the elementary school to individualism of the secondary school. ..."

7. Educational Problems by Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"offer their spouses in place of true wifely love with plenty of maternalism in it. Again, her fancy may be of the roaming rather than of the homing type, ..."

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