单词 | orphanism |
释义 | orphanismn. rare. The condition of being an orphan; orphanhood. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [noun] > condition of an orphan orphanityc1450 orphanyc1539 orphanage1579 orphancya1586 orphanism1598 orphanship1680 orphanhood1765 orphandom1892 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Orphanisme. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Orbité, Orphanisme. 1790 A. Seward Lett. (1811) II. 345 It is an anxious and alarmed life,..better, however,..than that of lonely orphanism. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 43 To feign convulsions, starvation, orphanism, widowhood. 1995 MELUS Summer 1 Martin's orphanism—parental and cultural—impels him to recover the identity of which he was deprived. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598 |
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