Both Uses of
maternal
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- What he loved above all else in the maternal edifice, that which aroused his soul, and made it open its poor wings, which it kept so miserably folded in its cavern, that which sometimes rendered him even happy, was the bells.†
Chpt 1.4.3 *
- Madame de Gondelaurier herself, still maternally seated in her big armchair, had not the heart to scold him.†
Chpt 2.8.6
Definition:
relating to a mother; or characteristic of parents -- such as to care for and help to develop