Deprived of or without a mother or maternal care.
when these unmothered monkeys finally became mothers their behaviour towards their offspring was unmaternal
Example sentencesExamples
- This displaced mourning makes the unmothered daughter assume the burden of the mother's disowned grief.
- Estes leads us past the gates of the conscious mind, to discover the unmothered child within.
- The Wakley Mesh Mothering Pen is a specially designed cage that helps match unmothered lambs with foster mums.
- In personal relationships, the wounded and unmothered inner child collapses very easily if not attended to.
- And he turns his back to the stable door, whence a faint breeze tugs at his shirt: the breath of a storm brewing, that means to keep him in cold, unmothered wakefulness.