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mothering
verb as in nurse
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verb as in procreate
verb as in propagate
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verb as in reproduce
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Making mothering and working an either/or robs us all of the powerful contributions mothers make to our economy.
At the beginning of the series, she had a husband in prison; she had kids that required a great deal of hands-on mothering.
They are now raising a 5-year-old boy who Jennifer is incapable of mothering.
But the problem, says Badinter, is how those values have changed—morphing into a style of mothering she calls “crushing.”
And then, of course, there was poor Hester Prynne—branded with a scarlet letter for mothering a child with another man.
He was a boy of eighteen, aching over his first love affair; and she was divinely mothering him.
For behind the mothering words lurked, he knew, the other self that any minute would return.
And a hint of mothering contentment stole sweetly over him behind this shadowy yet genuine consolation.
She smiled lazily as she reflected that he would take to mothering; his curly hair begged to be smoothed and tousled.
The little maid repaid him with a passionate love and a quaint mothering care tender and infinitely comforting to the lonely man.
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On this page you'll find 169 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mothering, such as: cradle, feed, keep an eye on, look after, nourish, and take care of.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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