单词 | stepmotherly |
释义 | > as lemmasˈstepmotherly ˈstepmotherly adj. relating to or characteristic of a stepmother. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] > as characteristic of stepmother stepmotherly1848 stepmother1887 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > mother > motherhood > [adjective] > relating to a stepmother novercant1472 novercal1623 stepmotherly1848 1848 M. W. Savage Bachelor of Albany xix. 210 [The cook] obliged her barbarous mistress to abandon..her step-motherly designs. 1860 F. C. L. Wraxall Life in Sea viii. 192 The Acephala have not been treated by her [sc. Nature] in such a step-motherly fashion as might be supposed from their headless condition. 1896 E. A. King Ital. Highways 63 Alma Mater is but step-motherly to her daughters in our own country. < as lemmas |
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