Definition of Childlessness

1. Noun. The condition of being without offspring.

Generic synonyms: Situation, State Of Affairs
Derivative terms: Childless

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

childhood schizophrenia
childhood tuberculosis
childhood type tuberculosis
childhoodless
childhoodlike
childhoods
childie
childing
childish
childishly
childishness
childishnesses
childism
childless
childlessly
childlessness (current term)
childlessnesses
childlier
childliest
childlike
childlikeness
childlikenesses
childliness
childlovers
childly
childmind
childminded
childminder

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 ..."

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