maternally
- r in a maternal manner; as a mother
she loved her students almost maternally
- For a good many years, Canada's Liberal Government has clucked maternally about the joys of free trade, the selfish shortsightedness of high tariff walls.
- Often, because of guilt feelings in the mother who cannot suffer from hemophilia but has transmitted it to her son, a young bleeder is maternally overprotected.
- Over the course of a highly compressed 95 minutes we get a sense of the maternally frustrated lives they have lived before arriving at the Casa de los Babys.