Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The abstraction of a child from its parents; the act of rendering childless.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Abstraction of a child from its parents.

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  • noun The abstraction of a child from its parents.

Etymologies

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Latin de- + filius son.

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