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Definition of maternity:

  • (noun) the state of being pregnant;
  • (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother
  • (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother

Sentence Examples:

The instinct of maternity remained keen within her, though she could never be a mother.

It may be said that the most important feature in a woman's history is her maternity.

I get three months maternity leave.

We discussed marriage, maternity, and social life in general.

Jimmy was disposed to press the matter, to urge immediate maternity on her.

Hence, the utility of pre-maternity wards wisely used.

Virginity does not hinder maternity.

I said that the fact of maternity excludes the possibility of virginity.

Few before him ever interpreted maternity as he has done.

It weighs upon the woman, that is to say, upon grace, weakness, beauty, maternity.

I have known the pleasures of maternity in my love.

They both show the deep passion of maternity in books and autobiographies and letters.

To her, as to her mother, maternity comprised all earthly sentiments.

Then she returned to herself, and to her new and opening world of maternity.

All her instinctive maternity is up in arms.

You ought not to deprive her of the benefits of her maternity.

With her purely instinctive maternity, she had been fond of Jim.

Marie cried, her small pale face warming with maternity.

Women have come to dread maternity.

She was one of the many goddesses of maternity absorbed by Ishtar.

He likewise disposes of the 'maternity' question very neatly.

The thoughts of maternity filled her heart with bliss.

Their childhood and my maternity were never shadowed with a thought of separation.

It is because they dance away all fear of maternity.

With maternity and physical disabilities in the scale?

Fashion has its requirements, and before them maternity must give way.

Nature is all absorbed in the vast cares of her maternity.

Who can doubt the maternity of such names as these?

Heaven made her rich in such maternity as his.

Few, if any, propose, for example, to give maternity aid to the rich.

The look of splendid maternity was in her eyes.

This style is particularly good during the maternity days.

At length the period of maternity approaches.

The majesty of maternity was on her pale face and in her great eyes.

As she reached up, her figure displayed itself just rounding with maternity.

Men love full breasts, because it promotes maternity.

How noble, how august, how beautiful is maternity when thus bestowed and received!

What exactly do you mean by a maternity nurse?

She now approaches the sacred threshold of maternity.

He was consulted on such matters as maternity and pregnancy.

Women so occupied have, as a rule, made themselves incapable of maternity.

At this point, outraged maternity overcame her.

He was gazing at Joan, at the glory of maternity in her face.

It gives her the first thrill of maternity.

Dunn, who had recently converted her hospitable home into a small maternity hospital.

How in the Universe do you think I can play a romantic lead wearing a maternity dress?

Maternity gives to woman her most beautiful attributes.

No private maternity home shall receive at any one time more than three patients.

She belonged to that class of women in whom maternity arouses late.

It was not even that he had accepted her maternity.

It is not synonymous with maternity.

He found her in the corridor in Maternity and motioned her toward the nursery.

With the cares of maternity other demands are quickly made upon her.

Kildare had guessed, maternity was not enough for Mag Henderson.

It was during this time, with maternity, and sorrow, and womanhood, that love came to her.

We had been married twelve years, and she had never yet shown any signs of maternity.

In the baby she lived over again her own first days of maternity.

They are gone to dress the Christmas babies at a great maternity hospital.

There was a passion of maternity in the act.

They rested on his face with a sad depth of maternity that he could not at all fathom.

After the trials and worries of maternity such happy conditions often come as a reward.

And then, as Marshall says, maternity affects the complexion.

I told him I was not prepared to meet the sufferings and responsibilities of maternity.

I felt that death would be preferable to maternity under such circumstances.

A few months after this, maternity was again forced upon me, to my grief and anguish.

Without any wish of my own, maternity was again forced upon me.

In this state, known as it was to my husband, he thrust maternity upon me twice.

During maternity the wife should have special consideration.

The Eighth is: Begins with an exclamation, appeals to maternity, ends with a laugh.

It requires no prophet to declare that premature maternity entails premature old age.

In all ages of luxury, fine ladies try to avoid maternity.

Have a look at our maternity ward.

She who bore all the pangs of maternity will guide a mother's heart!

In this way the sentiment of maternity became abiding.

To hunger and maternity let us also add love, which "rules the world by conflict."

I see that your new maternity dresses have just come in.

Asks Archibald, intensely amused at her pretty assumption of maternity.

Signs of approaching maternity were beginning to show themselves.

The climate and the cares of maternity together age them prematurely.

Mom also brought me three maternity tops.

As was to be expected the shock meant the immediate provision of a maternity hospital.

Was she to renounce this highest standard of maternity?

She has no right to sacrifice her empire to her maternity.

It is no longer a mere meek surrender, with fear for spur and maternity for solace.

Especial emphasis was placed upon her maternity over wild nature.

Not to be able to know quiet friendship, and the tranquil days of maternity.

She was secure in her high maternity; she was mistress and sole authority.

It makes maternity an offense for which a sin offering had to be made.

The tenderest word in our language is maternity.

Never will I worship any being who added to the sorrows and agonies of maternity.

Maternity is the most pathetic fact in the universe.

Their figures are spoiled (if they ever had any) by early maternity and hard work.

Even here the death penalty sometimes follows the joy of maternity.

The campaign might prove a desperate and bloody one, for maternity at bay fights hard.

Maternity, as a vocation, is of course strictly sex limited.

Maternity seemed to her a luxury for rich women; she had her fortune to make.

It would be thought that woman serves a mysterious apprenticeship to maternity.

I fancy her the sublime ideal of maternity.

They had little regard for the affinity of a somewhat common maternity.

The sublime instinct of maternity had been awakened within her.