different between stepmotherly vs novercal

English

stepmother +? -ly

stepmotherly (comparative more stepmotherly, superlative most stepmotherly)

From Latin novercalis, from noverca (“a stepmother”).

novercal (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to a stepmother.
- 1713, William Derham, Physico-Theology
  when almost the whole tribe of birds do thus, by incubation, produce their young , it is a wonderful deviation , that some few families only ?hould do it in a more novercal way

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