Motherdom

Quick meaning: Motherdom is a noun meaning The world, sphere, or unity of mothers; mothers collectively.

Meaning

The world, sphere, or unity of mothers; mothers collectively.

Example Sentences

That the Aeschylean Oresteia turns on the conflict between motherdom and fatherdom is notorious.

Lastly, religion is represented as fostering the cause of women, chiefly through its mysteries assigning a divine character, as it were, to motherdom as compared with fatherdom.

Bachofen, the protagonist of the "mother-right" theory in the last century, observed that "motherdom is related to the idea of the day-bearing night, as fatherdom is to light sprung from the union of the sun with mother night."

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mauther, a-mothering, mummydom, mothering, mamahood, momhood.

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