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Motherhood   /mˈəðərhˌʊd/   Listen
Motherhood

noun
1.
The kinship relation between an offspring and the mother.  Synonym: maternity.






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"Motherhood" Quotes from Famous Books



... days that followed Claire's attitude grew into one of motherhood. She watched over Lawrence for the least thing she might do, the least promise of returning health. There were times when he raved in delirium, and she listened with a ...
— Claire - The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author • Leslie Burton Blades

... of all these things, as a girl with her own wifehood and motherhood all before her does think, Margaret went back to her hot luncheon. One o'clock found her at her desk, refreshed in spirit by her little outburst, and much fortified in body. The room was well aired, and a reinforced fire roared in the little stove. One ...
— Mother • Kathleen Norris

... its musky and animal-like odors as well as the satin-shine of the light on its well-soaped little ribs, must now stand aside before the reservations of sex. It makes me feel that I've reached still another divide on the continent of motherhood. ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer

... and does not stop growing intellectually or spiritually,—her charm as a woman increases, instead of diminishes, every year of her married life. Her looks mark her everywhere as a supremely happy woman, and she goes out into the world marked with that strange, deep, grand impress of motherhood and womanhood, which has always made the true woman not only a ...
— The Warriors • Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown

... had been her natural Christian name—which, as in all infant households, had been gradually dropped or merged into the universal title of "Mother." My name for her was always emphatically "The Mother"—the truest type of motherhood I ...
— John Halifax, Gentleman • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik


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