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maternity [mə′tərn·əd·ē]
(biology)
Motherhood.
The state of being pregnant.


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Whereas the Mother was especially valued in the Zairean context through the quasi-religious cult, which Mobutu imposed in honour of his own mother, the brother and sister of the novel remember the spectacle of the body of their own biological mother, exhausted by too many maternities and abortions, with disgust and anguish.
Little Obamas and Michelles were coming to the world in maternities all over Kenya -- one woman managing both at the same time with a pair of twins -- as the party mood continued Wednesday in the nation where the US president-elect's father was born.
Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific (Cambridge 1998), 81-113; Jane Haggis "'A heart that has felt the love of God and longs for others to know it': Conventions of Gender, Tensions of Self and Constructions of Difference in Offering to be a Lady Missionary," Women's History Review 7 (No.
 
 
 
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