Definition of "motherlike" []

• Having the quality or suggestive of a mother; maternal, motherly (adjective)

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• "The power of a mother, or motherlike relationship, lasts a lifetime."
• "And after that she had kist me, she kneeled beside me, and lookt at me, very dear and tender; so that I knew in a moment that she had waked a while gone, and watched me, somewise motherlike, as I did sleep."
• "She said to herself: this little one that is coming will be all mine, belong to me alone; for, young-motherlike, she forgot in her way, just as Annemarie in hers, that two go to the parenting of a child."