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Meanings of motherliness in English
Catalan
qualitat maternal The quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother.
Synonyms
Examples for "maternity"
Examples for "maternity"
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I will continue to stand up for mothers who need maternity services.
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We would almost certainly have enough change to improve the maternity services.
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The study highlights the need to revise maternity and child health services.
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I took 11 months maternity leave and then returned to work part-time.
5
At present Counties-Manukau is the only area where GP's do maternity work.
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She possesses an otherworldly kindness, and is a paragon of maternalism.
2
Dr. Halsey felt a curious mix of revulsion and maternalism.
3
In fact, black women often using maternalism as a basis for their struggles for racial uplift.
4
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.
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Secondary outcomes will be maternal quality of life, women's preferences and costs.
2
Secondary outcomes will be severe maternal morbidity, maternal quality of life and costs.
3
Secondary outcome measures are neonatal mortality and morbidity, caesarean and vaginal instrumental delivery rates, maternal quality of life and costs.
4
She was not much older than some of them, but they had instinctively recognized the maternal quality of her interest in them.
5
He spoke with an odd boyishness, and Crowther's lips relaxed in a smile that had in it something of a maternal quality.
Usage of motherliness in English
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But he hadn't the faintest idea of the fount of Liosha's motherliness.
2
A certain motherliness pervaded the night; there was a suggestion of birth everywhere.
3
She put her arms-arms formed for tenderness, for motherliness-roundthe girl's slight frame.
4
All her brains must have run to motherliness, for she hadn't much sense.
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The gentleness and motherliness are of course neither of them real in such cases.
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The old woman looked at her with a strange mixture of motherliness and curiosity.
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For she was very much of a woman, and full of a secret motherliness.
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A child apiece doesn't seem to be enough to develop what I call motherliness.
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There are times when a woman's love is all motherliness.
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Their faces were not hard, like the men's, but filled with a withered motherliness.
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The motherliness of the night before had completely vanished.
12
Another was of a plump, placid, elderly lady who looked the very picture of motherliness.
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Occasionally he had seen glimpses of tenderness toward Pauline and of motherliness toward Jim Clanton.
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Kate Lee oozed motherliness-that love that is capable, wise, patient, tender-the love that never fails!
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The dark woman bent over the baby and made silent, gentle movements of motherliness to it.
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Afterwards everything went on as before, but the motherliness of aunts and sisters knew no bounds.
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