单词 | unfathered |
释义 | unfatheredadj.1 1. Having no (known or acknowledged) father; illegitimate. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > illegitimate cheves-bornOE misbegetc1325 bastc1330 misbegettenc1330 bastard1376 unlawfula1425 naturalc1425 illegitime1502 base1529 base-begot1534 illegitimate1536 misbegotten1554 bastarded1579 misborn1583 nameless1594 spurious1598 unfathered1600 misgotten1623 misbegot1626 baseborn1645 slip-sprung1665 born in (or under or out of) wedlock1675 side wind1738 love-begotten1761 born on the wrong side of the blanket1771 anonymous1869 sinistral1897 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 122 The people feare me, for they do obserue Vnfather'd heires, and lothly births of nature. View more context for this quotation 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 187 Thy Port asserts thee of distinguish'd race; No poor un-father'd product of disgrace. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh vii. 287 Marian's babe, her poor unfathered child. 1874 A. Trollope Lady Anna I. i. 10 She would be a penniless unmarried female with a daughter, her child would be unfathered and base. 2. Unfatherly. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > parent > father > fatherhood > [adjective] > unfatherly unfatherlike1611 unfatherly1621 unfathered1778 1778 J. Langhorne Owen of Carron xviii. 4 And Moray, with unfather'd Eyes,..Attends his human Sacrifice, Without the Grecian Painter's Veil. 3. Of obscure origin; unauthenticated. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > questionable state or quality > state of being unprovable > [adjective] > lacking confirmation nakedc1400 unratified1565 unsubscribed1571 unsealeda1616 unavouched1629 intestate1656 unattested1665 unconfirmed1671 uncertified1681 unvouched1775 incorroborated1784 unauthenticated1787 unvalued1807 unchartered1812 unaccredited1828 unfathered1830 unguaranteed1855 misvouched1876 uncorroborated1911 1830 T. De Quincey Life R. Bentley in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 445/2 Unfathered rumours had been wandering through ‘the circles’. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. ci. 419 Men are..therefore ready to trust their own fancies or some unfathered tale. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). unfatheredadj.2 Deprived of a father; made fatherless. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > having (specific) parents > having a father > fatherless fatherlessOE unfathereda1586 sireless1605 dadless1606 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xvii. sig. Ss1v Iole had her owne father killed by Hercules..& yet ere long this..vnfathered Lady could sportfully put on the Lions skin. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxxiv. sig. H2v Yf my deare loue were but the childe of state, It might for fortunes basterd be vnfathered . View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.11600adj.2a1586 |
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