Definition of Motherhoods

1. motherhood [n] - See also: motherhood

Lexicographical Neighbors of Motherhoods

motherer
motherers
motherese
motherf****rs
motherferyers
motherhood
motherhood and apple pie
motherhood statement
motherhoods (current term)
motherhouse
motherhouses
mothering
motherings
motherish
motherland
motherlands
motherless
motherlessness
motherlike
motherliness
motherlinesses
motherload
motherloads

Literary usage of Motherhoods

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"... originally perhaps, motherhoods), xxv. 16, P. The sons of Ishmael here appear as partly settled in open country places, and partly living in temporary ..."

2. The Religions of India by Edward Washburn Hopkins (1895)
"They eat everything but their totem, immolate human victims, and are divided into 'motherhoods, ' Maharis, particular Maharis ..."

3. Women's Suffrage: The Reform Against Nature by Horace Bushnell (1869)
"... it is that motherhoods obtain such ineradicable, inexpugnable possession of the life of sons and daughters. Fathers have a certain power and are held in ..."

4. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1846)
"... 1H motherhoods, the .r filaments into class are Papi- d; this peculiar iportant mark of be noted here, falling into error 5 with filaments ..."

5. Moral Uses of Dark Things by Horace Bushnell (1881)
"... and motherhoods whose places they occupy. So we get rid of a bad past by oblivion, and set up a good, or at least better one, for ourselves; ..."

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