mothership

Etymology

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of mother ship
  2. The state of being a mother; motherhood
    How did Solomon decide a question of mothership? 1916, Charles Augustus Shook, The Gist of the Bible: A Complete Handbook for Class and Home Study, page 222
    but with her mothership she puts on a lion's heart 1884, Francis de Sales, chapter XIV, in Henry Benedict McKay, transl., Treatise on the Love of God, page 101
    At present only the pride of mothership was apparent 1913, Susie Colyer Nethersole, Wilsam, page 357

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