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Maternal quality   /mətˈərnəl kwˈɑləti/   Listen
Maternal quality

noun
1.
The quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother.  Synonyms: maternalism, maternity, motherliness.





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... Tutt as morally an abandoned and hopeless creature. Mr. Ephraim Tutt she loved with a devotion rare among a sex with whom devotion is happily a common trait, but there was a maternal quality in her affection accounted for by the fact that although Mr. Tutt was, to be sure, an old man in years, he had occasionally an elfin, Puck-like perversity which was singularly boyish, at which times she ...
— By Advice of Counsel • Arthur Train


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