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Definition of Motherliness

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"

Definition of Motherliness

1. n. The state or quality of being motherly.

Definition of Motherliness

1. Noun. The property of being motherly. ¹

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Definition of Motherliness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Motherliness

Literary usage of Motherliness

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

1. Love and Marriage by Ellen Karolina Sofia Key (1911)
"CHAPTER VII COLLECTIVE motherliness AT a Scandinavian meeting on the woman's question, a cantata was sung which proclaimed that the human race under the ..."

2. Psychoanalysis and Love by André Tridon (1922)
"Neurotic motherliness. A patient of mine who "iad always shown herself rebellious in her attitude to her sexually potent lover, became all tenderness and ..."

3. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome Klapka Jerome (1898)
"ON THE motherliness OF MAN IT was only a piece of broken glass. From its shape and colour, I should say it had, in its happier days, formed portion of a ..."

4. The Household of Peter: A Novel by Rosa Nouchette Carey (1905)
"... XVIII "IT IS HER WANT OF motherliness" Great wisdom is required in those who would point out faults to others. They need deep love in their hearts, ..."

5. The Woman Movement by Ellen Karolina Sofia Key (1912)
"Thus this constitution cannot be cited as a reason for limiting woman's personal exercise of her powers. motherliness is no social ..."

6. A Survey of the Woman Problem by Rosa Obermayer Mayreder (1913)
"And " when once the power of motherliness emerges on earth in all its intrinsic glory, then shall woman, in a deeper significance than ever before, ..."

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