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Motherly   /mˈəðərli/   Listen
Motherly

adjective
1.
Befitting a mother; warm and nurturing.
adverb
1.
In a maternal manner; as a mother.  Synonym: maternally.





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"Motherly" Quotes from Famous Books



... marriage. He went home as soon as he had sufficient salary, married her, and brought her out. She was a brilliant dark beauty, who became quickly a motherly, housewifely, common-place person—I should think there had been a poet's love, ...
— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge
... in a tone of motherly pity, "here's a pie for you. Don't you think now you can go ...
— Little Grandmother • Sophie May
... no heed just at that moment to the wondrous beauties of nature to be seen on every hand, when even the rough barn was gilded and perfumed, for standing in the doorway, as if literally petrified with astonishment, was a motherly looking little woman whose upraised hands told of bewilderment and surprise, while from the expression on her face one could almost have believed that she was really afraid of the ...
— Aunt Hannah and Seth • James Otis
... at Lime was for two or three months overrun with visitors and vivacity. Fathers and mothers made fatherly and motherly stays, with the hottest of air-tights put up for their benefit in the front room; sisters and sisters-in-law brought the fashions and got up tableaux; cousins came on the jump; Miss Jones, Pauline Dallas, and I were invited in turn, and the ...
— Men, Women, and Ghosts • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... message which had disturbed the serenity of big Webb Mackenzie and had given to the motherly heart of his wife an unusual flutter. The best of news it could not be, for the ranger had already written them of the confession of Anderson, which included the statement of the death of their little daughter. But at least he might bring the next best news, ...
— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine


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