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parentless, a.|ˈpɛərəntlɪs|
[f. parent n. + -less.]
Without parents; fatherless and motherless; orphaned. Also fig. Having no (known or traceable) parents, author, or source.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. xvi. (1634) 245 He will not leave them as parentlesse, but will come againe to them. 1610Mirr. Mag., Eng. Eliza Induct. 778 Thy Orphans left poore parentlesse alone. c1800H. K. White Wand. Boy, I am a parentless wandering boy. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VII. lx. 289 Thus it is that the Colosseum, the most conspicuous type of Roman civilization,..is nameless and parentless. |