The quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother.
1 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 - round the girl's slight frame.
4 All her brains must have run to motherliness , for she hadn't much sense.
5 The gentleness and motherliness are of course neither of them real in such cases.
6 The old woman looked at her with a strange mixture of motherliness and curiosity.
7 For she was very much of a woman, and full of a secret motherliness .
8 A child apiece doesn't seem to be enough to develop what I call motherliness .
9 There are times when a woman's love is all motherliness .
10 Their faces were not hard, like the men's, but filled with a withered motherliness .
11 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 .
13 Occasionally he had seen glimpses of tenderness toward Pauline and of motherliness toward Jim Clanton.
14 Kate Lee oozed motherliness - that love that is capable, wise, patient, tender-the love that never fails!
15 The dark woman bent over the baby and made silent, gentle movements of motherliness to it.
16 Afterwards everything went on as before, but the motherliness of aunts and sisters knew no bounds.
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