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adj. - Having no living or known female parent.

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Usage examples (34)
  • Soulless tombs unborn children dread life after birth in motherless wombs. my 594th poem
  • Innocent was in very truth "motherless" -- but so she had always been -- for a mother who deserts her child is worse than a mother dead.
  • HI Rosie-On your show you had a guest that wrote a book called motherless daughters.
  • Elsewhere comes the cry of the "motherless" and the "Farewell, farewell, my only child."
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