1. I feel an obscure resentment against her motherliness.

2. The girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children.

3. A vietnamese mother kindly glanced at her beloved baby. The power of motherliness is huge. In a church, Beijing.

4. The feelings or characteristics associated with being a mother; motherliness.

5. She was a lady in her fifties, with sensibly cut white-blonde hair and a pair of plastic-framed spectacles. There was about her a pervading air of kindness and motherliness.