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Definition of Sonless
1. a. Being without a son.
Definition of Sonless
1. Adjective. Without a son. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sonless
1. having no son [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sonless
Literary usage of Sonless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman by Mary Clemmer (1874)
"... sonless Presidents—Supported by Flattery—A Delicate Constitution—Living to a
Respectable Age—Teaching Her Grandsons How to Fight—Inheriting Religion—" ..."
2. Vyavasthá-darpana: A Digest of the Hindu Law, as Current in Bengal. With by Shama Churun Sircar, Bengal (1867)
"If the father make an equal partition •* ' among his sons, his sonless wives ...
In the partition made by the father, his sonless wives only are entitled to ..."
3. A Manual of Hindu Law: For the Use of Students and Practitioners by Standish Grove Grady (1871)
"If by a sonless female.—Should the loss of caste be on the side of the female,
and she be sonless, she is accounted dead, and funeral rites are performed ..."
4. The Hindu Law: Being a Treatise on the Law Administered Exclusively to by Herbert Cowell (1870)
"Three Branches of the Law of Adoption—Who may adopt—sonless Men—Minors— Unmarried
Men may adopt—Impotent and excluded persons may ..."
5. A Short Treatise on Hindu Law: As Administered in the Courts of British India by Herbert Cowell (1895)
"Who may adopt—sonless men—Minors—Unmarried men—Impotent, men—' Disqualifications
for adopting—Women—Wives and widows can adopt with the husband's ..."
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