Maternity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MATERNITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• motherhood
• the period during pregnancy and shortly after childbirth
• The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.
• the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus
• the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother
• the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother
ADJECTIVE:
• of or for pregnant women
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being a mother; motherhood; the qualities of a mother; motherliness

Words related to MATERNITY

maternities13 motherhood19

How to use MATERNITY in a sentence

• Jennifer had three months of maternity leave, and she arranged to work part time for six months after that.
• Amanda was at Chexington, and there he found her installed in the utmost dignity of expectant maternity.
• Nina was married and out of the home, but there loomed before them the possibility of maternity and its dangers for her.
• Now Ann believes firmly in the holiness of maternity, but she flatly refuses to take upon herself the responsibility of an unwelcome tie.
• She was one of the many goddesses of maternity absorbed by Ishtar.
• Women are less than ever impressed with the sacredness and nobility of maternity, and look upon it more and more as a period of martyrdom.
• The potential mother can then be shown that maternity need not be slavery but may be the most effective avenue to self-development and self-realization.
• Every year I receive thousands of letters from women in all parts of America, desperate appeals to aid them to extricate themselves from the trap of compulsory maternity.
• The new government program would facilitate the function of maternity among the very classes in which the absolute necessity is to discourage it.
• Fashion has its requirements, and before them maternity must give way.
• Maternity is thrust upon these physically and mentally immature young wives, and they assume the principal role in a relationship that is onerous and exacting.
• The maternity nurse follows a routine which she is incapable of modifying to suit the particular case.
• While the trained nurse strictly attends exclusively to the mother and the baby, a maternity nurse as a rule attends to the household duties in addition.
• The duties of a maternity nurse can be specified and agreed upon, and the terms arranged when she is engaged.
• Every physician acquires certain individual methods in the conduct of maternity cases, which experience has taught him to be successful.
• Many young wives sow the first seeds of discontent, and ultimate failure during the natural depression that follows maternity.
• Her eyes were soft and dark, and her pale face, sad and sweet, was instinct with the tenderness of her coming maternity.
• Daily labour makes her lose all her freshness and strength, and maternity in the midst of poverty absorbs even the marrow in her bones.
• If I should attempt to explain to some men what I feel when I contemplate the miracle of maternity, they would smile and turn it all into an unspeakable jest.
• From instinctive warnings of maternity, cows will frequently return to the same retreat annually to give birth to their calves.
• He wronged their mother by imposing upon her the burdens and cares of maternity without the rights and privileges of a wife.
• You will keep the sort of order by which nothing is forgotten, you will practice patience which is as long as life, and maternity which is as heavy as the world.
• My elder brother appeared to absorb the trifling sentiment of maternity which was in her nature.
• It is maternity that in the marriage estate justifies a man in abandoning his freedom and a woman her shame.
• Remembering my nerve-racking experience of maternity in the Borough I thought Stacpoole was rather talking without his book.
• With her purely instinctive maternity, she had been fond of Jim.

Similar words containing MATERN without suffix ity

maternal10 bimaternal14 maternally15 unmaternal12 maternalism15 maternities13 maternalisms16 maternalistic17

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