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Definition of Fatherless
1. Adjective. Having no living father.
2. Adjective. Not having a known or legally responsible father.
Definition of Fatherless
1. a. Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child.
Definition of Fatherless
1. Adjective. Without a living father. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fatherless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fatherless
Literary usage of Fatherless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"They drive away the ass of the fatherless, 9. They pluck the fatherless from the
breast, 29:12. the poor that cried, and the fatherless, ..."
2. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"All those fatherless and widows are made so for righteousness sake. ... But oh!
where is thy pity for their poor fatherless children, arid motherless ..."
3. Friends Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1859)
"THE fatherless. Speak softly to the fatherless And check the harsh reply That
... Look mildly on the fatherless: Ye may have power to while Their hearts ..."
4. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1849)
"To the widows and fatherless. • 2nd. To orphans. 3rd. To those in the station of
apprentices. 4th. To men-servants and maid-servants; as also to the poor ..."
5. The Oasis: Or, Golden Leaves of Friendship by N. L. Ferguson (1855)
"SPEAK softly to the fatherless! And check the harsh reply That sends the ...
Speak kindly to the fatherless ! The lowliest of their band God keepeth, ..."
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