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Definition of Abandoned infant
1. Noun. A child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abandoned Infant
Literary usage of Abandoned infant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Course of Christian History by William Joseph McGlothlin (1918)
"The new church abandoned infant baptism and soon adopted faith-baptism.
Another congregation of like faith seems to have been established about 1638, ..."
2. Gesta Christi, Or, a History of Humane Progress Under Christianity by Charles Loring Brace (1882)
"This emperor (529-534) took the humane ground that the abandoned infant, even if
a slave, became free by the act ; and that if it were found, it became the ..."
3. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"... was vehemently denounced by the early Fathers of the Church.8 They tried to
convince men that, if the abandoned infant died, the unnatural parent was ..."
4. Proceedings in Commemoration of the Organization in Pittsfield, February 7 by First Church of Christ, Mass First Church of Christ (Pittsfield, Pittsfield (Mass.) (1889)
"I suppose he remained, probably, in the desire to soften the heart of the cruel
mother toward her vigorous and beautiful though abandoned infant. ..."
5. Death by Default: a policy of fatal neglict in China's State Orphanages by Robin Munro, Jeff Rigsby, Human Rights Watch/Asia (1996)
"... local police station Alter explaining that she c"felt sympathy for this
abandoned infant and hatred for the immoral action of her natural parents," Liu, ..."
6. Darkness and Daylight, Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1900)
"Occasionally one is found whose fine garments indicate that its parents do not
belong to the poor classes. When a policeman finds an abandoned infant he at ..."
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