My sister-in-law has just become amother for the first time.
He had something of hismother in him.
1988, Robert Ferro,Second Son:
He had something of hismother in him, but this was because he realized that in the end only her love was unconditional, and in gratitude he had emulated her.
2005, Trudelle Thomas,Spirituality in the Mother Zone: Staying Centered, Finding God, Paulist Press,→ISBN, page41:
The "Ritual to Celebrate Birthing" begins with a leader welcoming all participants : "Welcome to this celebration forN. She is approaching the time when she will become amother for the first time (or become amother again).
2024 May 1, Katia Hetter, “Why is a mother’s mental health so important? A doctor explains”, inCNN[1]:
In many countries, up to 1 in 5 newmothers experience a mood or anxiety disorder. Unfortunately, these conditions often go undiagnosed and untreated due to lack of awareness and stigma, and everyone pays the price.[…] To find out more, I spoke with CNN wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen. Wen, amother of two young kids, is an emergency physician and adjunct associate professor at the George Washington University.
But one in the place of God and not God, is as it were a falsehood; it is themother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived.
2013 October 31, Rowena Mason, quotingDavid Steel, “Lord Steel criticises culture of spin and tweeting in modern politics”, inThe Guardian[2],→ISSN:
How on earth are we supposed to hold our heads high as the ‘mother of parliaments’ when we allow to continue the practice of almost openly buying a seat in parliament?
1887 April 2, E. V. Wilson, “Uncle Dave”, inThe Current, volume 7, number172,page432:
A few minutes later we were all seated comfortably, Uncle Dave andmother, as he called his wife, myself and my husband, in the split-bottomed wooden chairs, on the vine-covered porch. / “Is Bethel a Methodist Church?” I asked. / Uncle Dave looked quizzically at his wife. “Do you hear that,mother?” he said.
On some days as he got near the house he would call out to his wife: / “Almighty Moses, Martha! who left the sprinkler on the grass?” / On other days he would call to her from quite a little distance off: “Hullo,mother! Got any supper for a hungry man?”
1944,Walter Hackett,For the Duration: A Play for Junior and Senior High Schools,page 8:
(Mr. Hillenters. He crosses toWife.) /Mr. Hill: Hello,mother.[…] How are you? /Mrs. Hill: Nothing wrong, dear, I hope.
1665, Robert Lovel,Pambotanologia sive Enchiridion botanicum, page484:
T.V. dicusseth tumors and mollifieth them, helps inflammations, rising of themother and the epilepsie being burnt.
1666, Nicholas Culpeper,The English Physitian Enlarged, page49:
The Root hereof taken with Zedoary and Angelică, or without them, helps the rising of theMother.
1979, Thomas R. Forbes, “The changing face of death in London”, in Charles Webster, editor,Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century, published1979, page128:
St Botolph's parish records ascribed three deaths to 'mother', an old name for the uterus.
1998, Nina Revoyr,The Necessary Hunger: A Novel, Macmillan,→ISBN, page101:
Q's sister, Debbie, hadmothered two kids by the time she was twenty, with neither of the fathers in sight.
2010, Lynette Joseph-Bani,The Biblical Journey of Slavery: From Egypt to the Americas, AuthorHouse,→ISBN, page51:
Zilpah, Leah's maid,mothered two sons for Jacob, Gad and Asher. Leah became pregnant once more and had two more sons, Issachar, and Zebulun, and a daughter, Dinah, thus Leah had seven children for Jacob.
(transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; tonurture.
1968, Evelyn Berckman,The Heir of Starvelings, page172:
Iron rusted, paper cracked, cream soured and vinegarmothered.
2013, Richard Dauenhauer,Benchmarks: New and Selected Poems 1963-2013, page94:
Your lamp was always polished, wick trimmed, waiting; yet the bridegroom somehow never came. Summer dust settled in the vineyard. Grapes were harvested; your parents crushed and pressed them, but the wine mothered.
November, 1943 If ever, Cortney Anders promised himself, I get out of thismother of a thunderstorm there is a thing I will do if it is the last act of my life.
1980, Chester Anderson,Fox & hare: the story of a Friday night, page 5:
Some hot night there's gonna be onemother of a riot down here. Just wait." He'd been saying the same thing since 1958, five years of crying wolf.
