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mothering

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moth·er·ing  (mr-ng)
n.
The nurturing and raising of a child or children by a mother: "Because they are involved in careers and mothering, many women lead exhausting lives" David E. Bloom.


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To him Sara leaped, throwing her arms around him and mothering him up to her flat little hairy breast.
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What he had glimpsed assured him that she was pretty; but her strongest appeal to him lay in the affectionate nature revealed by her gentle mothering of the grotesque doll.
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