Definition of maternal in English:

maternal

adjective məˈtəːn(ə)lməˈtərnl

1Relating to a mother, especially during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth.
母亲的；孕妇的；产妇的
maternal care
育龄。
Example sentencesExamples
- Nowhere is this truer than in evaluating the impact of maternal exposures in pregnancy that may affect health of the fetus in later life.
- It is not known if maternal depression is associated with failure to thrive.
- We know of no study of mood disorders in children that has examined maternal drinking during pregnancy.
- We therefore included only the controls matched for maternal age, infant sex, and parity.
- We have the highest standard of maternal care and that's something to be proud of.
- Untreated maternal depression, on the other hand, may have an adverse effect on development.
- Such modelling takes account of the maternal age distribution of the relevant population.
- The Health center receives an average of 15 women per day for maternal care.
- First is the inherent colinearity between maternal smoking in pregnancy and childhood.
- Adjustment for maternal age did not alter the results.
- When test results are negative, it may help reduce maternal anxiety earlier.
- In addition, the female fetus itself influenced the course of maternal asthma through pregnancy.
- The observed relation between maternal age and caesarean section cannot be explained by the obstetric complications we considered.
- Researchers are at a loss to explain the link between maternal depression and childhood aggression.
- The importance of family planning in reducing maternal mortality is uncontroversial.
- There are both affective and cognitive components to maternal satisfaction.
- The necessity of maternal care to offspring survival is the topic of Chapter Two.
- Once colic resolves, there is little lasting effect on levels of maternal anxiety or depression.
- And then I think our maternal care is very good compared with other countries.
- There was no evidence to show an effect of maternal or paternal age on the frequency of nondisjunction.
Synonyms
on one's mother's side, on the distaff side
1. 1.1 (of feelings) typical of a caring mother; motherly.
  母性的；母亲般的
  a mother who radiated maternal concern
  Example sentencesExamples
  Espying her son, now released, in the distance, she is unable to contain her maternal joy.
  So I decided to make the ultimate sacrifice at the altar of maternal love.
  It was fear of the maternal rage that would surely follow my brother's blabbing that made me plead for mercy.
  Different combinations of bows and sashes were arranged for inspection and I saw a glow of squishy maternal pride develop in my mother's eyes.
  If chicks are seen along with a hen, it portrays maternal love and procreation.
  These experiences had a profound effect and undoubtedly stirred her powerful maternal feelings.
  For my friend, maternal affection is the only true expression of love.
  She says she felt a strong jolt of maternal love when she looked at the first picture of her ultrasound scan.
  The portrait shows Lady Caroline's tender, maternal side, clasping her son, who died young.
  What distinguishes his recent work is an almost maternal sympathy for the perverseness of the human animal - and the twists in its fate.
  The builder's costs had been funded by his mother under loans motivated by maternal affection and made in the belief that her son's claim was bona fide.
  Yes, this Catherine, his Catherine who had taught him maternal love, was his real mother.
  But, for women there are powerful instincts and maternal feelings at play.
  My mother had been dead for over five years, and her maternal affection for me had gone with her.
  Although I am fairly open-minded, my maternal feelings tend to rear their ugly head at this issue.
  As was once said, maternal love is the greatest love in the world.
  And he knows that my dog and cat are not a substitute for maternal love.
  Whatever defects of character the new women may eventually acquire, lack of maternal affection will not be one of them.
  The greatness of maternal love has been the topic of many an immortal piece of writing.
  She just couldn't seem to invoke any maternal feelings inside of herself.
  Synonyms
  motherly, maternalistic
  protective, caring, nurturing, loving, devoted, affectionate, fond, warm, tender, gentle, kind, kindly, comforting, compassionate
2. 1.2attributive Related through the mother's side of the family.
  母系的，母亲一方的
  my maternal grandfather
  我的外公。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I have gone to the trouble to make peace with my father and the rest of our family including my maternal grandfather before he died.
  My husband's maternal family can be traced back to the early archives at Fulneck, founded 1754.
  The maternal side were minor landed gentry from Lorraine with a tincture of Norman blood.
  It is not just passed on from the maternal side of the family and may affect siblings differently.
  My maternal grandfather used to play piano at cinemas during silent films.
  I'm not sure about the maternal side of the family, but I don't think it is any further back than that.
  My maternal uncles and their families barely escaped getting killed.
  I was told of a Native American on my maternal grandmother's side.
  He has reason to be concerned as his mother and grandfather on his maternal side died of a sudden heart attack in their late fifties.
  To what extent would that be offset by extension of the child's relationships with the maternal family and homeland?
  She's even broken her maternal family tradition by dressing in a fashionable, appealing and innovative manner.
  He said the greatest lesson he learned from his maternal grandfather was the support he offered grieving families.
  I just am concerned with letting her bond with her maternal side of the family.
  I'm still not exactly sure how he's related to me, but I think he was my maternal grandfather's brother.
  My maternal grandfather died the best part of twenty years ago.
  He has been in the care of the Society and extended family members on his maternal side for different lengths of time.
  My parents had divorced but my maternal family was very religious.
  As a child, his family lived with his maternal grandparents of whom he was very fond.
  My maternal grandfather died within two weeks of my birth.
  Next in line is the maternal grandfather but, says the study, only because he's living with the grandmother.

Derivatives

maternalism

noun

But the safety of their refuge-along with its chance for selfdiscoveries about solitude and community, maternalism and sexuality, childish insouciance and adult responsibility-cannot last forever.
Example sentencesExamples
- It was no small feat to replace faith in common sense maternalism with confidence in genderblind specialization, especially in relation to work that touched such allegedly ordinary, familiar, and private aspects of life.
- By negotiating within the confines of the reigning social and political maternalism, it was able to highlight the inconsistent expectations that this ideology placed upon women.
- The first, and most predictable, message addressed gender roles and signaled the pre-eminence of piety over power, submission over supremacy, and maternalism over masculinity.
- Enlivened by her sunny maternalism and inviting bosom, and concerned for her fatherless offspring, he discovers that he can make them smile and be boys again by joining them in their fantasy world.

maternalist

adjective

The exaltation of family is consistent with the maternalist tendency to conceive of women as mothers, defined by their roles in a family structure.
Example sentencesExamples
- Other women (such as women printers) opposed any sort of maternalist legislation that may have dictated the terms of their employment.
- In France as in England, maternalist rationales celebrated feminine traits to maintain and extend women's place in school inspection.
- Middle class and elite women with maternalist goals were more concerned about the moral than the physical safety of young women and believed that domestic service provided a safe space for young women (They also needed servants).
- While the politics of maternalist welfare, and the policies adopted, varied from one country to another, the overall trend was toward extensive state aid and propaganda designed to promote motherhood.

maternalistic

adjective mətəːn(ə)ˈlɪstɪkməˌtərn(ə)lˈɪstɪk

Even at the most immediate level, her actions stand for a distorted maternalistic urge to treat ‘approaching wayfarers’ as children, to exercise control by mystification and to deal out ruthless punishment.
Example sentencesExamples
- He lives in a maternalistic and patronising establishment, which offers the inmates a certain type of kindness but no independence or choice in their everyday lives.

maternally

adverb məˈtəːnəliməˈtərn(ə)li

However, I was my mother's only child, and since her lineage was traced maternally, I would inherit something from her at her passing.
Example sentencesExamples
- Perhaps lighting fires is not aberrant behavior; humans may react almost maternally to the absence of fire in a landscape that craves it.
- Finally, by mapping the location of maternally related offspring, we characterize areas that individual females use for reproduction.
- In them was an exotic assortment of metal tools, maternally wrapped.
- She seems completely benign as she chats maternally with the teenager about his studies.

Origin

Late 15th century: from French maternel, from Latin maternus, from mater 'mother'.

mother from Old English:
English mother, Dutch moeder, and German Mutter share their ancient ancestor with Latin mater (source of madrigal (late 16th century), maternal (Late Middle English), matriarch (late 16th century), matrimony (Late Middle English), matrix (Late Middle English), and matter (Middle English) the last two containing the idea of something from which something is made or born). The root probably came from the use of the sound ma made by babies, identified by mothers as a reference to themselves. The British expression some mothers do 'ave 'em, commenting on a person's clumsy or foolish behaviour, was apparently originally a Lancashire saying. The comic Jimmy Clitheroe popularized it, as ‘don't some mothers 'ave 'em, in his BBC radio programme The Clitheroe Kid, which ran from 1958 to 1972. The phrase gained further currency as the title of a 1970s BBC television comedy series Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, in which Michael Crawford starred as the clumsy, accident-prone Frank Spencer. The former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is remembered as having promised the mother of all battles on the eve of the first Gulf War. On 7 January 1991 The Times reported that he had no intention of relinquishing Kuwait and was ready for the ‘mother of all wars’. The proverb necessity is the mother of invention is first recorded in 1658, in Northern Memoirs by R. Franck: ‘Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention.’ The idea can be traced back further to classical times, to the Roman satirist Persius, who stated that ‘The belly is the teacher of art and giver of wit’.

Rhymes

colonel, diurnal, eternal, external, fraternal, infernal, internal, journal, kernel, nocturnal, paternal, supernal, vernal

Definition of maternal in US English:

maternal

adjectiveməˈtərnlməˈtərnl

1Relating to a mother, especially during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth.
母亲的；孕妇的；产妇的
maternal care
育龄。
maternal age
育龄。
Example sentencesExamples
- There are both affective and cognitive components to maternal satisfaction.
- Nowhere is this truer than in evaluating the impact of maternal exposures in pregnancy that may affect health of the fetus in later life.
- There was no evidence to show an effect of maternal or paternal age on the frequency of nondisjunction.
- We therefore included only the controls matched for maternal age, infant sex, and parity.
- The observed relation between maternal age and caesarean section cannot be explained by the obstetric complications we considered.
- The importance of family planning in reducing maternal mortality is uncontroversial.
- The necessity of maternal care to offspring survival is the topic of Chapter Two.
- When test results are negative, it may help reduce maternal anxiety earlier.
- First is the inherent colinearity between maternal smoking in pregnancy and childhood.
- Adjustment for maternal age did not alter the results.
- We have the highest standard of maternal care and that's something to be proud of.
- Such modelling takes account of the maternal age distribution of the relevant population.
- Once colic resolves, there is little lasting effect on levels of maternal anxiety or depression.
- Untreated maternal depression, on the other hand, may have an adverse effect on development.
- The Health center receives an average of 15 women per day for maternal care.
- And then I think our maternal care is very good compared with other countries.
- It is not known if maternal depression is associated with failure to thrive.
- Researchers are at a loss to explain the link between maternal depression and childhood aggression.
- In addition, the female fetus itself influenced the course of maternal asthma through pregnancy.
- We know of no study of mood disorders in children that has examined maternal drinking during pregnancy.
Synonyms
on one's mother's side, on the distaff side
1. 1.1 Denoting feelings associated with or typical of a mother; motherly.
  母性的；母亲般的
  maternal instincts
  母性的本能。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For my friend, maternal affection is the only true expression of love.
  She just couldn't seem to invoke any maternal feelings inside of herself.
  If chicks are seen along with a hen, it portrays maternal love and procreation.
  Espying her son, now released, in the distance, she is unable to contain her maternal joy.
  The builder's costs had been funded by his mother under loans motivated by maternal affection and made in the belief that her son's claim was bona fide.
  The greatness of maternal love has been the topic of many an immortal piece of writing.
  As was once said, maternal love is the greatest love in the world.
  Whatever defects of character the new women may eventually acquire, lack of maternal affection will not be one of them.
  But, for women there are powerful instincts and maternal feelings at play.
  Although I am fairly open-minded, my maternal feelings tend to rear their ugly head at this issue.
  So I decided to make the ultimate sacrifice at the altar of maternal love.
  Different combinations of bows and sashes were arranged for inspection and I saw a glow of squishy maternal pride develop in my mother's eyes.
  The portrait shows Lady Caroline's tender, maternal side, clasping her son, who died young.
  And he knows that my dog and cat are not a substitute for maternal love.
  These experiences had a profound effect and undoubtedly stirred her powerful maternal feelings.
  What distinguishes his recent work is an almost maternal sympathy for the perverseness of the human animal - and the twists in its fate.
  It was fear of the maternal rage that would surely follow my brother's blabbing that made me plead for mercy.
  Yes, this Catherine, his Catherine who had taught him maternal love, was his real mother.
  She says she felt a strong jolt of maternal love when she looked at the first picture of her ultrasound scan.
  My mother had been dead for over five years, and her maternal affection for me had gone with her.
  Synonyms
  motherly, maternalistic
2. 1.2attributive Related through the mother's side of the family.
  母系的，母亲一方的
  my maternal grandfather
  我的外公。
  Example sentencesExamples
  My maternal grandfather died within two weeks of my birth.
  Next in line is the maternal grandfather but, says the study, only because he's living with the grandmother.
  My maternal uncles and their families barely escaped getting killed.
  It is not just passed on from the maternal side of the family and may affect siblings differently.
  To what extent would that be offset by extension of the child's relationships with the maternal family and homeland?
  I just am concerned with letting her bond with her maternal side of the family.
  The maternal side were minor landed gentry from Lorraine with a tincture of Norman blood.
  As a child, his family lived with his maternal grandparents of whom he was very fond.
  My maternal grandfather used to play piano at cinemas during silent films.
  He has been in the care of the Society and extended family members on his maternal side for different lengths of time.
  I'm still not exactly sure how he's related to me, but I think he was my maternal grandfather's brother.
  I was told of a Native American on my maternal grandmother's side.
  I have gone to the trouble to make peace with my father and the rest of our family including my maternal grandfather before he died.
  He said the greatest lesson he learned from his maternal grandfather was the support he offered grieving families.
  I'm not sure about the maternal side of the family, but I don't think it is any further back than that.
  He has reason to be concerned as his mother and grandfather on his maternal side died of a sudden heart attack in their late fifties.
  My husband's maternal family can be traced back to the early archives at Fulneck, founded 1754.
  She's even broken her maternal family tradition by dressing in a fashionable, appealing and innovative manner.
  My parents had divorced but my maternal family was very religious.
  My maternal grandfather died the best part of twenty years ago.

Origin

Late 15th century: from French maternel, from Latin maternus, from mater ‘mother’.

词汇	maternal
释义	Definition of maternal in English: maternal adjective məˈtəːn(ə)lməˈtərnl 1Relating to a mother, especially during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth. 母亲的；孕妇的；产妇的 maternal care 育龄。 Example sentencesExamples Nowhere is this truer than in evaluating the impact of maternal exposures in pregnancy that may affect health of the fetus in later life. It is not known if maternal depression is associated with failure to thrive. We know of no study of mood disorders in children that has examined maternal drinking during pregnancy. We therefore included only the controls matched for maternal age, infant sex, and parity. We have the highest standard of maternal care and that's something to be proud of. Untreated maternal depression, on the other hand, may have an adverse effect on development. Such modelling takes account of the maternal age distribution of the relevant population. The Health center receives an average of 15 women per day for maternal care. First is the inherent colinearity between maternal smoking in pregnancy and childhood. Adjustment for maternal age did not alter the results. When test results are negative, it may help reduce maternal anxiety earlier. In addition, the female fetus itself influenced the course of maternal asthma through pregnancy. The observed relation between maternal age and caesarean section cannot be explained by the obstetric complications we considered. Researchers are at a loss to explain the link between maternal depression and childhood aggression. The importance of family planning in reducing maternal mortality is uncontroversial. There are both affective and cognitive components to maternal satisfaction. The necessity of maternal care to offspring survival is the topic of Chapter Two. Once colic resolves, there is little lasting effect on levels of maternal anxiety or depression. And then I think our maternal care is very good compared with other countries. There was no evidence to show an effect of maternal or paternal age on the frequency of nondisjunction. Synonyms on one's mother's side, on the distaff side 1.1 (of feelings) typical of a caring mother; motherly. 母性的；母亲般的 a mother who radiated maternal concern Example sentencesExamples Espying her son, now released, in the distance, she is unable to contain her maternal joy. So I decided to make the ultimate sacrifice at the altar of maternal love. It was fear of the maternal rage that would surely follow my brother's blabbing that made me plead for mercy. Different combinations of bows and sashes were arranged for inspection and I saw a glow of squishy maternal pride develop in my mother's eyes. If chicks are seen along with a hen, it portrays maternal love and procreation. These experiences had a profound effect and undoubtedly stirred her powerful maternal feelings. For my friend, maternal affection is the only true expression of love. She says she felt a strong jolt of maternal love when she looked at the first picture of her ultrasound scan. The portrait shows Lady Caroline's tender, maternal side, clasping her son, who died young. What distinguishes his recent work is an almost maternal sympathy for the perverseness of the human animal - and the twists in its fate. The builder's costs had been funded by his mother under loans motivated by maternal affection and made in the belief that her son's claim was bona fide. Yes, this Catherine, his Catherine who had taught him maternal love, was his real mother. But, for women there are powerful instincts and maternal feelings at play. My mother had been dead for over five years, and her maternal affection for me had gone with her. Although I am fairly open-minded, my maternal feelings tend to rear their ugly head at this issue. As was once said, maternal love is the greatest love in the world. And he knows that my dog and cat are not a substitute for maternal love. Whatever defects of character the new women may eventually acquire, lack of maternal affection will not be one of them. The greatness of maternal love has been the topic of many an immortal piece of writing. She just couldn't seem to invoke any maternal feelings inside of herself. Synonyms motherly, maternalistic protective, caring, nurturing, loving, devoted, affectionate, fond, warm, tender, gentle, kind, kindly, comforting, compassionate 1.2attributive Related through the mother's side of the family. 母系的，母亲一方的 my maternal grandfather 我的外公。 Example sentencesExamples I have gone to the trouble to make peace with my father and the rest of our family including my maternal grandfather before he died. My husband's maternal family can be traced back to the early archives at Fulneck, founded 1754. The maternal side were minor landed gentry from Lorraine with a tincture of Norman blood. It is not just passed on from the maternal side of the family and may affect siblings differently. My maternal grandfather used to play piano at cinemas during silent films. I'm not sure about the maternal side of the family, but I don't think it is any further back than that. My maternal uncles and their families barely escaped getting killed. I was told of a Native American on my maternal grandmother's side. He has reason to be concerned as his mother and grandfather on his maternal side died of a sudden heart attack in their late fifties. To what extent would that be offset by extension of the child's relationships with the maternal family and homeland? She's even broken her maternal family tradition by dressing in a fashionable, appealing and innovative manner. He said the greatest lesson he learned from his maternal grandfather was the support he offered grieving families. I just am concerned with letting her bond with her maternal side of the family. I'm still not exactly sure how he's related to me, but I think he was my maternal grandfather's brother. My maternal grandfather died the best part of twenty years ago. He has been in the care of the Society and extended family members on his maternal side for different lengths of time. My parents had divorced but my maternal family was very religious. As a child, his family lived with his maternal grandparents of whom he was very fond. My maternal grandfather died within two weeks of my birth. Next in line is the maternal grandfather but, says the study, only because he's living with the grandmother. Derivatives maternalism noun But the safety of their refuge-along with its chance for selfdiscoveries about solitude and community, maternalism and sexuality, childish insouciance and adult responsibility-cannot last forever. Example sentencesExamples It was no small feat to replace faith in common sense maternalism with confidence in genderblind specialization, especially in relation to work that touched such allegedly ordinary, familiar, and private aspects of life. By negotiating within the confines of the reigning social and political maternalism, it was able to highlight the inconsistent expectations that this ideology placed upon women. The first, and most predictable, message addressed gender roles and signaled the pre-eminence of piety over power, submission over supremacy, and maternalism over masculinity. Enlivened by her sunny maternalism and inviting bosom, and concerned for her fatherless offspring, he discovers that he can make them smile and be boys again by joining them in their fantasy world. maternalist adjective The exaltation of family is consistent with the maternalist tendency to conceive of women as mothers, defined by their roles in a family structure. Example sentencesExamples Other women (such as women printers) opposed any sort of maternalist legislation that may have dictated the terms of their employment. In France as in England, maternalist rationales celebrated feminine traits to maintain and extend women's place in school inspection. Middle class and elite women with maternalist goals were more concerned about the moral than the physical safety of young women and believed that domestic service provided a safe space for young women (They also needed servants). While the politics of maternalist welfare, and the policies adopted, varied from one country to another, the overall trend was toward extensive state aid and propaganda designed to promote motherhood. maternalistic adjective mətəːn(ə)ˈlɪstɪkməˌtərn(ə)lˈɪstɪk Even at the most immediate level, her actions stand for a distorted maternalistic urge to treat ‘approaching wayfarers’ as children, to exercise control by mystification and to deal out ruthless punishment. Example sentencesExamples He lives in a maternalistic and patronising establishment, which offers the inmates a certain type of kindness but no independence or choice in their everyday lives. maternally adverb məˈtəːnəliməˈtərn(ə)li However, I was my mother's only child, and since her lineage was traced maternally, I would inherit something from her at her passing. Example sentencesExamples Perhaps lighting fires is not aberrant behavior; humans may react almost maternally to the absence of fire in a landscape that craves it. Finally, by mapping the location of maternally related offspring, we characterize areas that individual females use for reproduction. In them was an exotic assortment of metal tools, maternally wrapped. She seems completely benign as she chats maternally with the teenager about his studies. Origin Late 15th century: from French maternel, from Latin maternus, from mater 'mother'. mother from Old English: English mother, Dutch moeder, and German Mutter share their ancient ancestor with Latin mater (source of madrigal (late 16th century), maternal (Late Middle English), matriarch (late 16th century), matrimony (Late Middle English), matrix (Late Middle English), and matter (Middle English) the last two containing the idea of something from which something is made or born). The root probably came from the use of the sound ma made by babies, identified by mothers as a reference to themselves. The British expression some mothers do 'ave 'em, commenting on a person's clumsy or foolish behaviour, was apparently originally a Lancashire saying. The comic Jimmy Clitheroe popularized it, as ‘don't some mothers 'ave 'em, in his BBC radio programme The Clitheroe Kid, which ran from 1958 to 1972. The phrase gained further currency as the title of a 1970s BBC television comedy series Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, in which Michael Crawford starred as the clumsy, accident-prone Frank Spencer. The former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is remembered as having promised the mother of all battles on the eve of the first Gulf War. On 7 January 1991 The Times reported that he had no intention of relinquishing Kuwait and was ready for the ‘mother of all wars’. The proverb necessity is the mother of invention is first recorded in 1658, in Northern Memoirs by R. Franck: ‘Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention.’ The idea can be traced back further to classical times, to the Roman satirist Persius, who stated that ‘The belly is the teacher of art and giver of wit’. Rhymes colonel, diurnal, eternal, external, fraternal, infernal, internal, journal, kernel, nocturnal, paternal, supernal, vernal Definition of maternal in US English: maternal adjectiveməˈtərnlməˈtərnl 1Relating to a mother, especially during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth. 母亲的；孕妇的；产妇的 maternal care 育龄。 maternal age 育龄。 Example sentencesExamples There are both affective and cognitive components to maternal satisfaction. Nowhere is this truer than in evaluating the impact of maternal exposures in pregnancy that may affect health of the fetus in later life. There was no evidence to show an effect of maternal or paternal age on the frequency of nondisjunction. We therefore included only the controls matched for maternal age, infant sex, and parity. The observed relation between maternal age and caesarean section cannot be explained by the obstetric complications we considered. The importance of family planning in reducing maternal mortality is uncontroversial. The necessity of maternal care to offspring survival is the topic of Chapter Two. When test results are negative, it may help reduce maternal anxiety earlier. First is the inherent colinearity between maternal smoking in pregnancy and childhood. Adjustment for maternal age did not alter the results. We have the highest standard of maternal care and that's something to be proud of. Such modelling takes account of the maternal age distribution of the relevant population. Once colic resolves, there is little lasting effect on levels of maternal anxiety or depression. Untreated maternal depression, on the other hand, may have an adverse effect on development. The Health center receives an average of 15 women per day for maternal care. And then I think our maternal care is very good compared with other countries. It is not known if maternal depression is associated with failure to thrive. Researchers are at a loss to explain the link between maternal depression and childhood aggression. In addition, the female fetus itself influenced the course of maternal asthma through pregnancy. We know of no study of mood disorders in children that has examined maternal drinking during pregnancy. Synonyms on one's mother's side, on the distaff side 1.1 Denoting feelings associated with or typical of a mother; motherly. 母性的；母亲般的 maternal instincts 母性的本能。 Example sentencesExamples For my friend, maternal affection is the only true expression of love. She just couldn't seem to invoke any maternal feelings inside of herself. If chicks are seen along with a hen, it portrays maternal love and procreation. Espying her son, now released, in the distance, she is unable to contain her maternal joy. The builder's costs had been funded by his mother under loans motivated by maternal affection and made in the belief that her son's claim was bona fide. The greatness of maternal love has been the topic of many an immortal piece of writing. As was once said, maternal love is the greatest love in the world. Whatever defects of character the new women may eventually acquire, lack of maternal affection will not be one of them. But, for women there are powerful instincts and maternal feelings at play. Although I am fairly open-minded, my maternal feelings tend to rear their ugly head at this issue. So I decided to make the ultimate sacrifice at the altar of maternal love. Different combinations of bows and sashes were arranged for inspection and I saw a glow of squishy maternal pride develop in my mother's eyes. The portrait shows Lady Caroline's tender, maternal side, clasping her son, who died young. And he knows that my dog and cat are not a substitute for maternal love. These experiences had a profound effect and undoubtedly stirred her powerful maternal feelings. What distinguishes his recent work is an almost maternal sympathy for the perverseness of the human animal - and the twists in its fate. It was fear of the maternal rage that would surely follow my brother's blabbing that made me plead for mercy. Yes, this Catherine, his Catherine who had taught him maternal love, was his real mother. She says she felt a strong jolt of maternal love when she looked at the first picture of her ultrasound scan. My mother had been dead for over five years, and her maternal affection for me had gone with her. Synonyms motherly, maternalistic 1.2attributive Related through the mother's side of the family. 母系的，母亲一方的 my maternal grandfather 我的外公。 Example sentencesExamples My maternal grandfather died within two weeks of my birth. Next in line is the maternal grandfather but, says the study, only because he's living with the grandmother. My maternal uncles and their families barely escaped getting killed. It is not just passed on from the maternal side of the family and may affect siblings differently. To what extent would that be offset by extension of the child's relationships with the maternal family and homeland? I just am concerned with letting her bond with her maternal side of the family. The maternal side were minor landed gentry from Lorraine with a tincture of Norman blood. As a child, his family lived with his maternal grandparents of whom he was very fond. My maternal grandfather used to play piano at cinemas during silent films. He has been in the care of the Society and extended family members on his maternal side for different lengths of time. I'm still not exactly sure how he's related to me, but I think he was my maternal grandfather's brother. I was told of a Native American on my maternal grandmother's side. I have gone to the trouble to make peace with my father and the rest of our family including my maternal grandfather before he died. He said the greatest lesson he learned from his maternal grandfather was the support he offered grieving families. I'm not sure about the maternal side of the family, but I don't think it is any further back than that. He has reason to be concerned as his mother and grandfather on his maternal side died of a sudden heart attack in their late fifties. My husband's maternal family can be traced back to the early archives at Fulneck, founded 1754. She's even broken her maternal family tradition by dressing in a fashionable, appealing and innovative manner. My parents had divorced but my maternal family was very religious. My maternal grandfather died the best part of twenty years ago. Origin Late 15th century: from French maternel, from Latin maternus, from mater ‘mother’.
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