a1876 J. Eadie (1877) 92 This orphaning separation had been for ‘the season of an hour’.
1983 S. Donaldson 16 No orphaning misstep or betrayal could occur between hoof and earth.
1990 20 Jan. 167/2 Uncertainty..followed the ‘orphaning’ of two embryos in Victoria after the death of their parents in an aeroplane crash.