Maternity
[mə'tɜːnɪtɪ] or [mə'tɝnəti]
Definition
(n.) The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.
Typist: Nelly
Examples
- This had dashed the triumphant and rapturous emotions of maternity with grief and fear. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And this is maternity--to give one's best years and best love to ensure the fate of being despised! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In squalid garret, on Monday morning Maternity awakes, to hear children weeping for bread. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Maternity must forth to the streets, to the herb-makers and bakers'-queues; meets there with hunger-stricken Maternity, sympathetic, exasperative. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She is to lose as far as possible the incidents of maternity and the characteristics of the female sex. Plato. The Republic.
- No, but I will do all your maternity work free. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- My mother was rather small, in fact too small to be allowed the responsibilities of maternity, as our chieftains breed principally for size. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Wifehood and maternity had changed her thus, as I have since seen them change others even less promising than she. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Yes, I am a man born of woman, but such maternity does not appeal to me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- At the very time when with keen delight she welcomed the tokens of maternity, this sole prop of her life failed, her husband died of the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Edited by Bradley