motherlove

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mother +‎ love

Noun[edit]

motherlove (uncountable)

  1. (especially religion) Maternal love.
    • 1994, Peter N. Stearns, American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style:
      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.
    • 2008, L. D. Ervin, Meditations and Reflections:
      No one knows motherlove more than our Lord, who came to give His life so that we may live.
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