unmothering

Verb

unmother (third-person singular simple present unmothers, present participle unmothering, simple past and past participle unmothered)

1. To cause to cease being a mother; to kill or otherwise remove (a mother's) children.
   • One day modi mother and unmothered. True twinnes in birth and death ; together drown in this sad stream.1640, Ovid, translated by John Gower, edited by Edward Alliston, Ovids Festivalls: Or Romane Calendar - Issue 2, page 33
2. To cause to cease having a mother or to fail to mother properly.
   • Whatever keeps me from my beginnings, whatever chops me off and isolates me from my whole life is to the harm of my spirit; it unmothers me; it dispossesses me of my heritage and of my truth, and how can I pass on what is mine if I have not received what was others' and passed on to me? he thought.1952, William Goyen, Ghost and flesh: stories and tales, page 132

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