Catalan
qualitat maternal The quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother.
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She possesses an otherworldly kindness, and is a paragon of maternalism.
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Dr. Halsey felt a curious mix of revulsion and maternalism.
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In fact, black women often using maternalism as a basis for their struggles for racial uplift.
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The New Yorker, August 10, 1935 P. 7 It was at the Mary Elizabeth tearoom that we discovered new maternalism creeping into drink.
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While maternalism is generally thought of as beginning in the 1880s and continuing through the 1920s, the logic behind the ideology is still visible today.