republican motherhood
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English
35
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
7
Syllables
15
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An attitude toward women's roles in the emerging United States around the time of the American Revolution, based on the idea that the patriots' daughters should be raised to uphold the ideals of republicanism, in order to pass on those values to the next generation.
Uncountable