mother
noun
a woman who has borne offspring; a female parent.
was mothering
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past progressiveof mother.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Twelve-year-old Menari gave birth to the first baby without trouble on Christmas Eve and was mothering it appropriately, but she was having problems after that, according to a news release.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
By then she was mothering two young children.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
She was mothering Oksi and calling a worried “kak, kak” to 426.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
For now she was mothering Amy's child—her child and her husband.
From His Second Wife by Ernest Poole
Twenty-five years dropped from him—he was a child again, a little boy, and she, in some divine, half-impersonal sense he could not understand, was mothering him.
From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Algernon Blackwood
