adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Don't worry," Laura said in a gentle motherly way.
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motherly advice
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a kind, motherly woman
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Miss Gilbert was motherly but firm, an excellent teacher for the lower forms.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All Molly's motherly instincts erupted when she saw what it was.
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But motherly warmth turns cold beside the journalistic revulsion the Molinari gambit provokes.
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Charles found himself muttering to the motherly dresser, who handed him his hat.
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From an attitude of generosity, warm feeling and motherly goodness, she now had shifted into a mood of high hilarity.
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If images do not appear as motherly they can not be Goddesses.
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Impotently, she held both her arms wide in a gesture of motherly love, as though this would comfort him.
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Marguerite was not exactly a motherly woman, but she was in some way comfortable.