Associations to the word «Motherly»

Wiktionary

MOTHERLY, adjective. Befitting a mother, warm, caring, nurturing, protective, loving.

Dictionary definition

MOTHERLY, adverb. In a maternal manner; as a mother; "she loved her students almost maternally".
MOTHERLY, adjective. Befitting a mother; warm and nurturing.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope