(n.) The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
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affiliation, agnation, alliance, ancestry, blood, blood relationship, brotherhood, brothership, cognation, common ancestry, common descent, connection, consanguinity, cousinhood, cousinship, enation, fatherhood, filiation, fraternity, kindred, kinship, maternalness, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherliness, mothership, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, propinquity, relation, relationship, sibship, sisterhood, sistership, ties of blood
