Motherlove

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Maternal love. especially, uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From mother + love.

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