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In a motherly manner.

The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.

The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.

Of or pertaining to the mesosternum.

The middle portion, or body, of the sternum.

Of or pertaining to the metasternum.

The most posterior element of the sternum; the ensiform process; xiphisternum.

To govern ill; as, to misgovern a country. Knolles.

Misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.

Bad government; want of government. Shak.

or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon.

Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.

One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.

Modernness; something modern. Walpole.

The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.

To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. Percy.

One who modernizes.

In modern times. Milton.

The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty. M. Arnold.