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fatherless
[ fah-ther-lis ]
adjective
- not having a living father:
a fatherless boy.
- not having a known or legally responsible father.
ˈfatherless
/ ˈfɑːðəlɪs /
adjective
- having no father
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fatherless1
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Example Sentences
Fatherless and emotionally needy, du Pont was a loner who sought companionship and adoration—usually at great financial cost.
All the shirtless photos hunting tigers and harpooning whales are love letters to the endless queues of fatherless girls.
More than a thousand children were left fatherless after the Monongah Mine disaster in 1907 killed more than 350 men.
Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
Leave thy fatherless children: I will make them live: and thy widows shall hope in me.
Her daughter, the object of her most idolatrous love, is left fatherless and motherless in this cold world.
He has done generous by these yer poor little lambs that he loved and sheltered, and that's left fatherless and motherless.
How should he meet her—a widow in her father's house—or look at her fatherless child?
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