单词	motherless
释义	motherless /ˈmʌðələs / adjective Having no mother because she is dead or absent from the home: a motherless daughter, disowned by her father... Countless readers have bonded with the character of Janie Crawford, a motherless girl raised by her grandmother. The last two months have seen the release of three family films featuring single dads raising motherless only-children. Mrs. Lorne treats Johnny kindly because she knows he is motherless. Derivatives motherlessness noun ... Dylan and his black buddy, united by motherlessness, inherit a powerful ring from a local derelict. Her motherlessness plays no small role in this; her obstinate self-sufficiency evidently compensates for her father's meekness and her mother's absence. It is a patriarchal society's tradition of enforced motherlessness that is sought to be challenged at the cost of being regarded as an aberrant mother.
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