Meaning of motherwise | Babel Free

Definitions

In the manner of a mother; maternally.

not-comparable

Examples

“The chubby father let⟳ the baby slide⟳ into one of the heavy wooden chairs, and the little girl instantly busied herself, motherwise, smoothing out the child's rumpled frock of clean⟳ faded calico, placing his fat legs to give⟳ a better balance in the big seat, straightening the cheap wide straw hat, ludicrously too old, that was fastened with a string under his double⟳ chin.”

“Then she looked at Paragot and the child, a yard or two in front of us. "He is the image of his father," she said almost reverentially. […] "Pauvre chéri," said Blanquette, motherwise.”

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