Meanings
- uncountableThe action of behaving dutifully as a daughter; the action of a female child in caring for or otherwise relating to her parents.
But Unwyrm needed one task performed. The daughtering of Peace.
2003, Orson Scott Card, Wyrms, page 2612 more examples
She has spent her days and nights putting her mothering and daughtering hands to healing her own children and her own parents at home.
2002, Paula Lawrence Wehmiller, A Gathering of Gifts, page 22As I read the chapters of this book, I thought not only about the connection between me and my mother, but also about the effect that my mothering has on my daughter and that her daughtering has on me.
2012, Alice H. Deakins, Rebecca Bryant Lockridge, Helen M. Sterk, Mothers and Daughters: Complicated Connections Across Cultures, page xi
Origin
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