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Definition of Parentless
1. Adjective. Having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates.
Definition of Parentless
1. a. Deprived of parents.
Definition of Parentless
1. Adjective. Having no (living) parent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Parentless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parentless
Literary usage of Parentless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Methodist Review (1883)
"Here are utterances that seem almost to put us back to the Mosaic evolution and
parentless creation of man. 1. The highest science here confesses, ..."
2. A Theory of Reality: An Essay in Metaphysical System Upon the Basis of Human by George Trumbull Ladd (1899)
"That mystery knoweth why the super-depths rent themselves asunder, and why they
set themselves in one order, and why they emanated from the parentless. ..."
3. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1862)
"Can this be likewise termed a parental generation, or is it not rather a
non-identical, a parentless generation ? The parental generation can only be ..."