单词 | orphanize |
释义 | orphanizev. transitive. To orphan; to abandon. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > cause of death > bereavement by death > bereave [verb (transitive)] > of parents orphanize1797 orphan1814 1797 A. Seward Lett. (1811) V. 17 Women and children, widowed and orphanized, alas! by the obstinacy of Dutch resistance. 1851 J. Livingstone Let. in Life (1885) vi. 97 To orphanize my children, will be like tearing out my bowels. 1879 P. Lorimer tr. G. V. Lechler Wiclif I. 43 The parish was spiritually orphanised. 1989 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 19 Apr. ii. 7/1 The only way by which the new generation could truly part itself from the old and move onto new pathways was to orphanize itself. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1797 |
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