Crossword clues for mothering
mothering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mothering \Moth"er*ing\, n. A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
Mother \Moth"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mothered; p. pr. & vb. n. Mothering.] To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.
The queen, to have put lady Elizabeth besides the
crown, would have mothered another body's child.
--Howell.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The nurturing of a child by its mother. 2 The protective behaviour of a mother towards her child. 3 Nurturing or protective behaviour reminiscent of that performed by a literal mother. vb. (present participle of mother English)
Wikipedia
Mothering is a magazine focused on natural mothering practices, which began publishing in 1976. The headquarters is in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Mothering is acting like a mother.
Mothering also may refer to:
- Mothering (magazine), American, on motherhood
- Mothering, customs associated with the holiday of Mothering Sunday
Usage examples of "mothering".
I concentrated on the task of raising Leah in a culture alien to me and I hired a maid named Maria Parise from the Umbrian countryside and watched with pleasure as she took over the task of mothering Leah.
It is as if the mother has crossed a boundary from the domain of good, responsive mothering into that of foolish, even wrongful, over indulgence.
Though the actual tasks of mothering may seem repetitive and unimportant, the role you play is an endlessly creative and hugely important one.
Key to your mothering style are your feelings about dependence and independence, permissiveness and control, safety and danger, giving and withholding, intimacy and the expression of feelings.
We noticed that Lilly had taken an interest in mothering Egg as soon as Egg grew bigger than she was.
Frost seemed to invite mothering, even from the decidedly unmaternal Rizzoli.
Mothering girls without a decent pair of jeans to their names, she could not have married the Afrikaner doctor in Brits who was in love with her, and mothered children he would take to the segregated Dutch Reformed Church every Sunday.
Is an owned flaw in her consistency Men love to dub Dame Nature--that lay-shape They use to hang phenomena upon-- Whose deftest mothering in fairest sphere Is girt about by terms inexorable!
Sally was the first of many orphans who followed Through various misfortunes and deaths around her, Miss Bosanquet quickly found herself mothering six of them The number grew until twenty children and several grown people found a home beneath her hospitable roof at one time.
She was sixteen, an acceptable age for love affairs or mothering among the matrilineal Hobbs Landians.
But she can be invoked for all matters of abundance, for reaping the benefits of earlier work or effort, for all mothering rituals and as a protectress of animals.
Appenzeller, for instance, empty of udder and full of years, Commencèd to greener pastures not a month after Redfearn's Tommy -- peace of mind be eternally hers, who gave me the only and lovingest mothering I knew.
She'll get practice, we can use the time for some full exams, and that'll keep every mother's child in this mothering army up to strength.
On Mothering Sunday, when all servants are given leave to visit their mothers, or any credible equivalent, he rides on a borrowed pony to Llanfair, with a present of a Simnel cake, baked in the Castle kitchen, and a gift from the Countess.
Adventure songs, work songs, mothering songs, roaming songs, mood songs, trouble songs, joke songs-everything.