Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Careful or anxious, as a mother is.

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Examples

  • Couldn't ever be anything else and hadn't ever really felt anything but mothersome to this here wandering treasure of hers.

    Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903

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