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childless, a.|ˈtʃaɪldlɪs|
[f. child n. + -less.]
Having no child or children; without offspring.
c1200Ormin 2312 Þatt wif þatt haffde ben Aȝȝ childlæs. a1300Cursor M. 2591 Sare was childeles. 1535Coverdale 1 Sam. xv. 33 Like as thy swerde hath made wemen childlesse. 1631Gouge God's Arrows i. §71. 119 By it, parents..have beene soone made childlesse. a1721Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) tr. Verg. Georg. iv. (L.) The sad nightingale, when childless made. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. 7 Being a childless widower. |