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motherlove

motherlove noun: maternal love.

Noun

motherlove (uncountable)

  1. (especially) 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

Origin of motherlove

From mother + love.

Questions about motherlove

What does motherlove mean?
Motherlove means maternal love.
What part of speech is motherlove?
Motherlove is a noun.

Words near motherlove in the dictionary

  1. motherlings
  2. motherload
  3. motherloads
  4. motherlode
  5. motherlodes
  6. motherlove
  7. motherlover
  8. motherlovers
  9. motherloving
  10. motherly
  11. motherment

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