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▪ I. unˈfathered, a.1
[un-1 9.]
1. Having no (known or acknowledged) father; illegitimate.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. iv. 122 The people feare me: for they doe obserue Vnfather'd Heires, and loathly Births of Nature. 1726Pope Odyss. xix. 187 Thy port asserts thee of distinguish'd race; No poor unfather'd product of disgrace. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vii. 327 Marian's babe, her poor unfathered child. 1874Trollope Lady Anna i, She would be a penniless unmarried female with a daughter, her child would be unfathered and base.
2. Unfatherly. rare—1.
1778Langhorne Owen of Carron xviii. 2 And Moray, with unfather'd Eyes,..Attends his human Sacrifice, Without the Grecian Painter's Veil.
3. Of obscure origin; unauthenticated.
1830De Quincey Bentley Wks. 1863 VI. 55 Unfathered rumours, rumours unacknowledged and untraceable. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. ci. 419 Men are..therefore ready to trust their own fancies or some unfathered tale.
▪ II. unˈfathered, a.2
[un-2 4, 8.]
Deprived of a father; made fatherless.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. xvii, Iole had her owne father killed by Hercules..& yet ere long this..unfathered Lady could sportfully put on the Lions skin. c1600Shakes. Sonn. cxxiv, Yf my deare loue were but the childe of state, It might for fortunes basterd be vnfathered. |