单词 | mother-love |
释义 | > as lemmasmother-love mother-love n. †(a) love for one's mother (obsolete); (b) maternal love. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > love between kinsmen > motherly love or affection mother-loveOE motherheada1393 motherhood1593 mother1725 OE Vercelli Homilies (1992) i. 36 ‘Þis is þin modor, & þu hie þe for modor hafa.’ & he þa, Iohanne[s], swa dyde, & he hie þa in moderlufan hæfde. 1683 F. Willis et al. tr. Anacreon done into Eng. 66 All [the young ones] gape for Food, and All The Mother Love with chirpings call. 1843 T. Westwood Beads from Rosary 27 A love to equal that sweet mother-love of thine. 1857 T. J. Powis Uriel xi. 106 All things rest,..Lulled in Mary's mother-love. 1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner May 128/1 The power of mother-love, that maternal instinct we so highly laud, was theirs of course, raised to its highest power. 1989 Independent 9 May 14 (heading) Victims of the perverse side of motherlove. < as lemmas |
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