单词 | motherlessness |
释义 | > as lemmasˈmotherlessness ˈmotherlessness n. the lack of a mother. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [noun] > condition of having no mother motherlessc1384 motherlessness1869 1869 Harper's Mag. July 271/1 She pitied his motherlessness, and was then..doling out to him sweet morsels of comfort. 1889 A. Sergeant Esther Denison v. xxxvii An indefinitely lonely and neglected look hung about the two—the look of motherlessness. 1974 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 80 272 It deals only with..the consequences of motherlessness for the family. 1988 P. Fitzgerald Beginning of Spring xi. 84 The three children..should be showing, so much more than they did, the effect of motherlessness. < as lemmas |
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