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Motherliness

noun

The quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother. Synonyms: maternal quality, maternalism, maternity.

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"Motherliness" Quotes from Famous Books

... recovering from his affection of the spine, found in Kitty the motherliness which he had sorely missed when Elizabeth first went away. His affection was very sweet to Kitty. She had never hitherto been more than a playmate to her step-brothers: she was destined henceforward to be their chief counsellor and friend. And the little baby-sister was almost as a child ...

— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... useless, idle, untrained member of a society to which all three adjectives apply, this woman had grown to be the broad and brave and smiling creature who was now studying Susan's face with the insatiable motherliness that even her household's constant claims failed to exhaust. Manager and cook and houseworker, seamstress and confidante to her restless, growing brood, still there was a certain pure radiance that was never ...

— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris

Words linked to "Motherliness" : parental quality, motherly, maternalism, maternal quality, maternity, maternal