unchildedadj.
Destitute or deprived of children; childless.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > parenthood > [adjective] > childless
childlessc1175
daughterlessc1300
childrenlessa1387
bairnlessa1400
sonlessa1425
issueless1447
childerless1549
orb1607
unchilded1610
babyless1852
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xv. xv. 551 Nor is it credible that their fathers liued al this while either immature, or vnmarried, or vnchilded.
1866 J. Conington tr. Virgil Æneid 58 With death in view, the unchilded sire Checked not the utterance of his ire.
1882 A. C. Swinburne Tristram of Lyonesse 155 So bitter burned within the unchilded wife A virgin lust for vengeance.
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adj.1610- to work to rule
- to work to the bone
- to work to windward
- to work tom cox's traverse
- to work unright
- to work up
- to work with one's hands
- to work with one's will
- to work with the left hand
- to work woe
- to work wonders
- to work, bake, brew bale
- to world
- to worm a person in the nose
- to worm a person out of
- to worm in
- to worm one's way
- to worm out
- to worm out of
- to worry , be worried, sick
- to worry along
- to worry one's head
- to worry one's way
- to worry oneself, be worried, sick
- to worry the soul case out of