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motherlove en · NOUN

Etymology

From mother + love.

Meanings

  1. (especially, uncountable) Maternal love.
    • This implicit debate about motherlove between advocates of Victorianism and the new feminists and self-styled modernists turned into a more systematic rejection of Victorian assumptions during the 1920s. 1994, Peter N. Stearns, American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style:
    • No one knows motherlove more than our Lord, who came to give His life so that we may live. 2008, L. D. Ervin, Meditations and Reflections: