Noun : The committee is an orphan of the previous administration.    From Dictionary.com. 

Adjective : an orphan home. ,an orphan research project. ,orphan workers.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : He was orphaned at the age of four. ,The recession has orphaned many experienced workers.    From Dictionary.com. 

I liked this one, too, and wondered why it wandered off into orphanhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [A cautionary tale] Reference

The reason for his orphanhood would remain forever as obscure as their faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tar Aiym Krang]

There is a third possibility C in the two scenarios: no parents, i.e., orphanhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tolley, part 2: Mom isn’t Essential, and Neither is Dad] Reference

HIV-infected, hundreds of thousands of children are pushed to the brink of orphanhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I stand towards you in the position of a relative who is bound to watch over your lonely orphanhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Folk] Reference

When we turn away from the world, and leave it, we ourselves are not left to desolation and orphanhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

Still, I have no sibling with whom to share my orphanhood, so perhaps the experience is more acutely felt.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Losing Mum and Pup’] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway] Reference

Eileen Tabios also reveals her psychic wounds to educate the public about the potentially dire consequences of orphanhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

The tender, ennobling influences which had surrounded me had been more impressive than any I had experienced during orphanhood, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate] Reference

Such mortality and also the illness preceding it, had a devastating effect on children leading to increased morbidity, mortality and orphanhood, she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Thus it happened that an unexpected visit from Fred's mother, among those that she received in her first days of orphanhood, was particularly agreeable to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Take-up rates for child support, disability and foster care grants are relatively low, given the relatively high burden of illness and orphanhood in the sample population.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dalia Ravikovitch.] Reference

Do not smile, if, old as I am, I lament my orphanhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference

This > greatly mitigates any component's risk of orphanhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [[email protected] Archives] Reference

Oh, blessed orphanhood, it were well to be bereaved, to have such comforting!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.] Reference

But there were some differences between Em'ly's orphanhood and mine, it appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield] Reference

And Foma's soul was dry, dark; it was filled with a painful feeling of orphanhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference

But there were some differences between Em’ly’s orphanhood and mine, it appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [III. I Have a Change] Reference

"We sympathize with children like Mercy who find themselves in orphanhood," Bamusi said.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Notary, that you seduced me and have now abandoned me in my orphanhood; for that I care not!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812] Reference

The joy and solace of a common orphanhood, -- a brother evidently made and born for their adversities?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memories of Bethany] Reference

What danger is there for any man in a lonely, all but widowed woman and daughters who are living in orphanhood?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. III] Reference

Many a criminal hero is simply disconnected by a traumatic event, by adulthood, orphanhood - by ignoring their origins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!] Reference

Mrs. Costello began to feel that the one secure asylum for Lucia, in her probable orphanhood, would be in the old house by the Dee.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 A Novel] Reference

The familiar associations of the mass had brought the grief of orphanhood, homelessness, and uncertainty upon him with the more force.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Armourer's Prentices] Reference

But there were some differences between Em’ly’s orphanhood and mine, it appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield] Reference

She revived the orphanhood theme.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Tabloid]

Of orphanhood and loss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian Year] Reference

The touching story of his orphanhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference

Casts orphanhood, a Bethlehem God-swung.    From Wordnik.com.  [Path Flower and Other Verses] Reference

And her own orphanhood to plead her part.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.] Reference

Wandering forlorn in homeless orphanhood!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference

On the nest's orphanhood of greenish black!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Immovable First Part] Reference

A painful feeling of orphanhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference