word for "overly fond of one's children"?

[Joel S. Berson]

And didn't the original question have the implication of sexual interest?

Joel

At 1/20/2006 11:49 AM, you wrote:
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>On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:42:26AM -0500, Grant Barrett wrote:
> > Indeed. OED has "philoprogenitiveness" from 1815 (with three cites
> > total; a search of A9 shows that others are possible) and defines it
> > as "Love of offspring; the instinct or faculty of love for one's
> > children, or for children (and animals) in general. Its organ is
> > located by phrenologists just above the middle of the cerebellum."
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>(The OED draft entry for this now has seven citations, up to
>1995, along with a brand-new sense 'inclination to or liking for the
>production of offspring; fecundity', with cites from 1842-1996. No
>notion of excess in either case, though.)
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>Jesse Sheidlower
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