Also storgé, è, -ē, -ee, -èe, -ée. [Gr. στοργή, related to στέργειν to have natural affection to, to love.] Natural affection; usually, that of parents for their offspring.
1637. Bastwick, Litany, I. 11/1. We must be louing progenitors & although they doe ex officio abandon and renounce, both honesty and storge at once, yet we may not.
1764. T. Hutchinson, Hist. Mass., vi. (1765), 463. The Storgée in the parent might be observed towards their young.
1809. R. Cumberland, John De Lancaster, I. 23. The storgee, or natural affection of my daughter-in-law towards her infant.
1835. Kirby, Habits & Inst. Anim., II. xviii. 258. But first, I must say something of that Storge, or instinctive affection, which is almost universally exhibited by females for their progeny.
1850. Thackeray, Pendennis, I. ii. I could have … adored in her the Divine beneficence in endowing us with the maternal storgē, which … sanctifies the history of mankind.
1880. S. Cox, Comm. Job, 524. The Ostrich resembles the stork…; but lacks its pious, maternal storgé.
