wombly

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of having a womb.

   • In practicing couvade, the male makes himself wombly. An initiated aboriginal man made womanly by sub-incision can imitate the womb's ability to open.
   • Or is it that foetuses, and they alone, require wombly residence in order to survive?
2. 2

   motherly

   motherly; womanly.

   • He remembers Milly's childhood fear of being deserted and the terror she experienced at the first bloody sign of womanly/wombly maturation: "Her growing pains at night […]
   • This image extends to the divine person through the use of […] in Jeremiah 31.20 to signify God's motherly (or 'wombly') compassion for the beloved child, Ephraim.

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