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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

motherhood

/ˈmʌðɚˌhʊd/

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What does motherhood mean?

noun

  1. The state of being a mother.
  2. 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.
Abraham MyersonThe Foundations of PersonalityProject Gutenberg ebook #1575
These women, whose essential distinction of motherhood was the dominant note of their whole culture, were strikingly deficient in what we call “femininity.”
Charlotte Perkins GilmanHerlandProject Gutenberg ebook #32
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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?
Olive SchreinerWoman and LabourProject Gutenberg ebook #1440
From these charming pictures they derive their complacent views of the beauty of motherhood and their confidence for the future of the race.
Margaret SangerThe Pivot of CivilizationProject Gutenberg ebook #1689
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.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the SpiderTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #1887