0 A motherly woman treats other people with a lot of kindness and love and tries to make certain they are happy.
1 typical of a kind or caring mother
In this light, then, there should be no wonder why the motherly administrative order provoked such insistent and articulate opposition.
But it was in the expropriation of young women's cultural image as the symbol of the motherly state where administrative reformers made perhaps their most important strategic move.
But just as likely they identified breaches of prescribed deportment such as drinking, swearing, and carousing that were so offensive in the reformist idiom of motherly care.
She faces a desperate plight in trying to care for often robust young children with whom she cannot adopt the normal motherly tactics.
Some were motherly and kindly, generally speaking, in women's cases.
The care and the strong motherly feeling which the matrons and the superintendents of these institutions show is to me a marvellous thing.
Would it not be much better if these young children were under the care of motherly widows?
She had a rather motherly attitude towards them.
