|
|
Definition of Childlessness
1. Noun. The condition of being without offspring.
Definition of Childlessness
1. n. The state of being childless.
Definition of Childlessness
1. Noun. The state of being childless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Childlessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Childlessness
Literary usage of Childlessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Institutes: A Textbook of the History and System of Roman Private Law by Rudolf Sohm, Bernhard Erwin Grüber (1907)
"The penalties on celibacy and childlessness were abolished by enactments of
Constantine and subsequent emperors; Justinian did away with the above-mentioned ..."
2. Observations on the Attempted Application of Pantheistic Principles to the by William Hodge Mill (1861)
"... story of an adequate repentance of the captive king procuring a subsequent
reversal of the doom of childlessness so distinctly pronounced against him. ..."
3. Genesis and Its Authorship: Two Dissertations by John Quarry (1873)
"The complaint which Abram makes to God of his childlessness, and the promise
that, notwithstanding, an heir out of his own bowels should possess the entire ..."
4. Commentaries on the Law of Evidence in Civil Cases by Burr W. Jones, Louis Horwitz (1913)
"Same—As to Infancy, Celibacy, Childlessness. i 58i. Same—As to Copartnership.
§ 58J. Same—Authority to Do an Act. § S8k. Same—Other Relations of Persons or ..."
5. The Influence of Wealth in Imperial Rome by William Stearns Davis (1910)
"Childlessness. The well known Belgian savant, Monsieur "Willems, has computed
that in 179 BC there were in the Roman Senate eighty-eight patricians, ..."
6. The Laws of Moses and the Code of Hammurabi by Stanley Arthur Cook (1903)
"... Bars to marriage—Babylonian laws against incest—Chastity and slander—Parallel
Hebrew laws—Laws of adultery—Ordeals— Childlessness and bigamy—Polygyny in ..."
Other Resources:
