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

[Laurence Horn]

>"Ultraphiloprogenitiveness."
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>   JL

Or "hyperphiloprogenitivity", if we can mix Greek with Latin.

LH

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>Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM> 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
>OED
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