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‖ storge|ˈstɔːgiː|
Also storgé, -è, -ē, -ee, -èe, -ée.
[Gr. στοργή, related to στέργειν to have natural affection to, to love.]
Natural affection; usually, that of parents for their offspring.
1637Bastwick Litany i. 11/1 We must be louing progenitors & although they doe ex officio abandon and renounce, both honesty and storge at once, yet we may not. 1764T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. vi. (1765) 463 The Storgée in the parent might be observed towards their young. 1809R. Cumberland John de Lancaster I. 23 The storgee, or natural affection of my daughter-in-law towards her infant. 1835Kirby Habits & Inst. Anim. II. xviii. 258 But first, I must say something of that Storge, or instinctive affection, which is almost universally exhibited by females for their progeny. 1850Thackeray Pendennis I. ii, I could have..adored in her the Divine beneficence in endowing us with the maternal storgē, which..sanctifies the history of mankind. 1880S. Cox Comm. Job 524 The Ostrich resembles the stork..; but lacks its pious, maternal storgé. |