storgen.
/ˈstɔːɡiː/ Natural affection; usually, that of parents for their offspring.
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the mind > emotion > love > affection > [noun] > natural affection or feeling
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1637 J. Bastwick Letany 11/1 We must be louing progenitors & although they doe ex officio abandon and renounce, both honesty and storge at once, yet we may not.
1764 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (1765) vi. 463 The Storgée in the parent might be observed towards their young.
1809 R. Cumberland John de Lancaster I. 23 The storgee, or natural affection of my daughter-in-law towards her infant.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xviii. 258 But first, I must say something of that Storge, or instinctive affection, which is almost universally exhibited by females for their progeny.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis I. ii I could have..adored in her the Divine beneficence in endowing us with the maternal storgē, which..sanctifies the history of mankind.
1880 S. Cox Comm. Job 524 The Ostrich resembles the stork..; but lacks its pious, maternal storgé.
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