单词 | unchild |
释义 | unchildv. 1. To deprive of children; to make childless. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > parenthood > [verb (transitive)] > deprive of children unchild1605 1605 W. Alexander Alexandræan Trag. iv. ii First orphan'd, widdow'd, and vnchilded last, A daughter, wife, and mother all accurst. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. vi. 152 Though in this City hee Hath widdowed and vnchilded many a one. View more context for this quotation 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xxii. 48 He hath unchilded me of many a son. 2. To deprive of the status of a child or of the qualities peculiar to childhood. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > adult > make adult [verb (transitive)] unchild1615 time1650 1615 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. III. O.T. x. 211 Whosoeuer now dispose of themselues without their Parents, they doe wilfully vn-child themselues. 1864 R. Browning Mr. Sludge in Wks. (1888) VII. 230 In brief, she may unchild the child I am. Derivatives unˈchilding adj. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > parenthood > [adjective] > childless > making unchilding1876 1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xiii, in Poems (1967) 55 Wiry and white-fiery and whirlwind-swivellèd snow Spins to the widow-making unchilding unfathering deeps. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < |
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