(UN-1 7.)
Also, in recent use, unmotherliness.
1593. Sidney’s Arcadia, IV. (1629), 413. Well hath my mother reuenged vpon me my vnmotherly hating of thee.
1622. E. Clinton, C’tess Lincoln’s Nursery, 13. They argue vnmotherly affection, idlenesse, desire to haue liberty.
1825. Coleridge, Aids Refl., 357. To asperse my friend’s wife for unmotherly conduct in taking an infant six months old to a crowded theatre.
1850. Blackie, Æschylus, I. 120. My mother most unmotherly, her own children With godless hate pursuing.
1882. Edna Lyall, Donovan, I. ix. 202. It was through her neglect and unmotherliness that he was driven away from home to spend his evenings at a disreputable club.
