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maternity

/məˈtɜɹnəti/ noun B2
  1. The state of being a mother; motherhood. (countable, uncountable)
  2. The state of being pregnant; pregnancy. (countable, uncountable)
  3. A ward or department in a hospital in which babies are born. (countable, uncountable) · She's working in maternity this month.

Plural maternities

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Something warm and pleasant welled up in Marilla’s heart at touch of that thin little hand in her own--a throb of the maternity she had missed, perhaps.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 79 · C1

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