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(obsolete) The practice of visiting one's literal or figurative mother or mother church (compare Mothering Sunday); also called mothering.

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a-mothering

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obsolete uncountable

(obsolete) The practice of visiting one's literal or figurative mother or mother church (compare Mothering Sunday); also called mothering.

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（古語）実際の母親または象徴的な母親（母教会）を訪問する行為、またはその慣習を指す。

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Every spring she practiced a-mothering, returning to the parish church her family had attended for generations.

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毎年春、彼女は母を訪ねる習慣に従い、何世代にもわたって家族が通ってきた教区教会に戻っていた。

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(obsolete) The practice of visiting one's literal or figurative mother or mother church (compare Mothering Sunday); also called mothering.

Mothering-.—In former days, when the Roman Catholic was the established religion, it was the custom for people to visit their Mother Church on MidLent Sunday, and to make their offerings at the high altar. ...the now remaining practice of Mothering, or going to visit parents upon Mid-Lent Sunday, is really owing to that good old custom.

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