I often think back on that as an example of true motherly love.
By the way, I really appreciate your motherly, unconditional love.
Be it a romantic gesture, motherly love, or even approval from our teachers, we'll take what we can get.
"A percentage of the local ones are not killed at birth, motherly love being such as it is."
To him it was simply the most perfect expression of motherly love he had ever seen.
She was so overwhelmed by his motherly love and hugged him.
This was my definition of motherly love and probably explains why I'm not a parent today.
There's not much way you can mistake an action like that for motherly love.
But he is slowly moved and changed by the motherly love expressed from this woman.
Though Sophie has a mother, she doesn't feel any motherly love from her.