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Definition of Orphaned
1. Adjective. Deprived of parents by death or desertion.
Definition of Orphaned
1. Adjective. Abandoned ¹
2. Verb. (past of orphan) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Orphaned
1. orphan [v] - See also: orphan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orphaned
Literary usage of Orphaned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Juvenile Offenders by William Douglas Morrison (1897)
"Economic condition of orphaned and deserted children—Economic condition of
illegitimate and partially orphaned children— Children dependent on their mothers ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Their weapons were the orphaned children also were sometimes killed by the elders.
The authority of the village chiefs was absolute. ..."
3. Diary of Anna Green Winslow: A Boston School Girl of 1771 by Anna Green Winslow, Alice Morse Earle (1895)
"... at Bunker Hill: and his betrothed devoted herself afterwards to the care and
education of his orphaned children whom he had by his first wife. NOTE 37. ..."
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