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Meanings of motherliness in English

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qualitat maternal

The quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother.

qualitat maternal
Usage of motherliness in English
1
But he hadn't the faintest idea of the fount of Liosha's motherliness.
Jaffery
2
A certain motherliness pervaded the night; there was a suggestion of birth everywhere.
The Seventh Noon
3
She put her arms-arms formed for tenderness, for motherliness-roundthe girl's slight frame.
Sir George Tressady — Volume II
4
All her brains must have run to motherliness, for she hadn't much sense.
Novel Notes
5
The gentleness and motherliness are of course neither of them real in such cases.
Nerves and Common Sense
6
The old woman looked at her with a strange mixture of motherliness and curiosity.
'Way Down East / A Romance of New England Life
7
For she was very much of a woman, and full of a secret motherliness.
A Spirit in Prison
8
A child apiece doesn't seem to be enough to develop what I call motherliness.
Herland
9
There are times when a woman's love is all motherliness.
Betty Zane
10
Their faces were not hard, like the men's, but filled with a withered motherliness.
Through stained glass / A Novel
11
The motherliness of the night before had completely vanished.
The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories
12
Another was of a plump, placid, elderly lady who looked the very picture of motherliness.
Glenloch Girls
13
Occasionally he had seen glimpses of tenderness toward Pauline and of motherliness toward Jim Clanton.
A Man Four-Square
14
Kate Lee oozed motherliness-that love that is capable, wise, patient, tender-the love that never fails!
The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"
15
The dark woman bent over the baby and made silent, gentle movements of motherliness to it.
The Prussian Officer
16
Afterwards everything went on as before, but the motherliness of aunts and sisters knew no bounds.
Married
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