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Orphanhood   Listen
noun
Orphanhood  n.  The state or condition of being an orphan; orphanage.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Orphanhood" Quotes from Famous Books



... alive, as often as not falling a huddled mass a few feet from the exit of the cellar. Mothers died of typhoid, pneumonia, in childbirth; others never had reached the cellar with their own children in the panic; one way or another these children arrived in Paris in a state of orphanhood, although later investigations proved them to have been hiding close to their mother (and sometimes father; for all men are not physically fit for war) by the width of a street, in a town where the long roar of guns dulled the senses ...
— The Living Present • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... whose mind the memory of the defeats sustained in Spain could be obliterated with more difficulty than from mine; inasmuch as there my father and uncle were both slain within the space of thirty days, so that one death after another was accumulated on my family. But as the orphanhood and desolation of my own family depresses my mind, so both the good fortune and valour of our nation forbid me to despair of the safety of the state. It has happened to us by a kind of fatality, that in all important wars ...
— The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six • Titus Livius



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