Meanings
nounmotherlove (uncountable)
- especiallyuncountablelifestyleMaternal love.
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 Reflections1 more example
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
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