motherlove

English

Etymology

From mother +‎ love.

Noun

motherlove (uncountable)

1. (especially religion) Maternal love.
   • 1994, Peter N. Stearns, American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style:

     This implicit debate about motherlove between advocates of Victorianism and the new feminists and self-styled modernists turned into a more systematic rejection of Victorian assumptions during the 1920s.

   • 2008, L. D. Ervin, Meditations and Reflections:

     No one knows motherlove more than our Lord, who came to give His life so that we may live.