What does unsmothering mean?
Unsmothering means present participle and gerund of unsmother.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of unsmother.
He wanted Carol as a friend with her practicality, serenity and unsmothering sympathy.
Ferguson could never let go of his mother, his unsmothering mother whose love was the source of all life for him, and merely to see her frown at him with that sad look in her eyes was a devastation, a bullet in the heart.
You are the very model of unsmothering motherhood.
Use unsmothering when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unsmothering means present participle and gerund of unsmother.
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He wanted Carol as a friend with her practicality, serenity and unsmothering sympathy.
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