Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being an orphan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or condition of being an orphan; orphanage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being an
orphan . - noun The losing of both
parents throughdeath .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the condition of being a child without living parents
Etymologies
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Examples
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Second: The State shall guarantee social and health security to Iraqis in cases of old age, sickness, employment disability, homelessness, orphanhood, or unemployment, shall work to protect them from ignorance, fear and poverty, and shall provide them housing and special programs of care and rehabilitation, and this shall be regulated by law.
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Maybe this is connected to the fact that we all know we'll have to confront adult orphanhood at some point.
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I spoke on tape with two people who relished, face to face, the friendship, resignation, laughter, and ultimately the orphanhood of the late Lezama Lima: that unfinished poet of Oppiano Licario and the narrator of the unpublished Fragments of His Iman; that shadow so Piñera-like that he swam in his sleep, both fists clenched Virgilio vomited his fear, but Lezama Lima swallowed his.
Yoani Sanchez: Open Letter to the World (Excepting Abel Prieto, Cuba's Minister of Culture) Yoani Sanchez 2010
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I spoke on tape with two people who relished, face to face, the friendship, resignation, laughter, and ultimately the orphanhood of the late Lezama Lima: that unfinished poet of Oppiano Licario and the narrator of the unpublished Fragments of His Iman; that shadow so Piñera-like that he swam in his sleep, both fists clenched Virgilio vomited his fear, but Lezama Lima swallowed his.
Yoani Sanchez: Open Letter to the World (Excepting Abel Prieto, Cuba's Minister of Culture) Yoani Sanchez 2010
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I spoke on tape with two people who relished, face to face, the friendship, resignation, laughter, and ultimately the orphanhood of the late Lezama Lima: that unfinished poet of Oppiano Licario and the narrator of the unpublished Fragments of His Iman; that shadow so Piñera-like that he swam in his sleep, both fists clenched Virgilio vomited his fear, but Lezama Lima swallowed his.
Yoani Sanchez: Open Letter to the World (Excepting Abel Prieto, Cuba's Minister of Culture) Yoani Sanchez 2010
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Elvira's orphanhood does not give her a blank slate of a past, but a rich and complicated one already at the age of 18.
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In that year, when Ravikovitch was six years old, her father was run over and killed by a drunken driver, leaving his daughter with a permanent sense of loss and orphanhood.
Dalia Ravikovitch. 2009
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I liked this one, too, and wondered why it wandered off into orphanhood.
A cautionary tale doyle 2009
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Not quite as bad as plunking the children in front of a TV or a horror movie happens, too but done often enough...indeed, one of the tragedies of orphanhood is how the child's true interests may never be recognized and developed...
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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If as I hope, President-Elect Obama, you are NOT prepared to bear the responsibility for the deaths, injuries and orphanhood of children as innocent and lovely as your own, then STAND UP NOW!
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