HOW TO PRONOUNCE
motherhood
/ˈmʌðɚˌhʊd/
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What does motherhood mean?
noun
- The state of being a mother.
- Mothers, considered as a group.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmʌðɚˌhʊd/
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We should lose the sacred principles of motherhood and fatherhood, the only example of consistent and unrewarded love, if the home disappeared.
These women, whose essential distinction of motherhood was the dominant note of their whole culture, were strikingly deficient in what we call “femininity.”
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What, if she, who could combine motherhood with the most unending muscular toil, will fall flaccid and helpless where the labour becomes mental?
From these charming pictures they derive their complacent views of the beauty of motherhood and their confidence for the future of the race.
The eminent talents of the Epeirae are displayed to even better purpose in the industrial business of motherhood than in the art of the chase.