All 4 Uses of
maternal
in
Middlemarch
- They were not thin hands, or small hands; but powerful, feminine, maternal hands.†
Chpt 1 *
- "Ah, poor creature! what indeed?" said Mrs. Farebrother, her sharpness blunted for the moment by her confidence in maternal judgments.†
Chpt 2
- There is often something maternal even in a girlish love, and Mary's hard experience had wrought her nature to an impressibility very different from that hard slight thing which we call girlishness.†
Chpt 3
- Mrs. Plymdale's maternal view was, that Rosamond might possibly now have retrospective glimpses of her own folly; and feeling the advantages to be at present all on the side of her son, was too kind a woman not to behave graciously.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(maternal as in: maternal grandmother) relating to a mother; or characteristic of parents -- such as to care for and help to develop