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Meanings of parentless in English

Having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates.

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And much quotation on a page makes it like a foundling hospital-sentencesunparented, ideas abandoned of their proper text.
Journeys to Bagdad
Usage of parentless in English
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Unless the state grants Quynh clemency the children will grow up parentless.
The Guardian
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But the injured and parentless animals are the least often source for familiars.
A Wiccan Bible
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He had his paternal rights even here-Elsand Eva were not parentless orphans.
In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 08
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Her independence was complete; for five years she had been parentless and had lived alone.
Thyrza
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It was horrible to imagine Cory parentless and alone.
The secret life of ceecee wilkes
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In either case I am like Adam -inthis world-a special, parentless creation.)
Bring the Jubilee
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LIV is a charity based in South Africa that places vulnerable and parentless children into a family environment.
The South African
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There are no reliable estimates of the number of parentless and lost children at risk in Haiti's quake-shattered capital.
Reuters
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How relieved she surely was not to be me, poor and parentless, desired but defiled by the opposite sex.
Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
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There are no reliable estimates of the number of parentless and lost children at risk in Haiti's quake-shattered capital Port-au-Prince.
Reuters
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The foster-care records would have been interesting enough-notbecause I felt any bond with Halpern from my own parentless past.
Dexter in the Dark
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While thus discountenancing any intimacy between her daughter and the Emperor, she too died, and the princess was left parentless.
Japanese Literature / Including Selections from Genji Monogatari...
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That night Ben had lain awake late, but no thoughts of being cast adrift and parentless in a hard world troubled him.
IT
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Pete loved Aaron Rowley, who had raised him, but Aaron wouldn't be able to understand how it felt to grow up parentless and unwanted.
In every heartbeat
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It was generally the Curé or the Mayor of the bombarded towns that had rounded up each little parentless army and headed it toward Paris.
The Living Present
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We would, then, have to fend for ourselves, and I imagined a parentless pack of us unwanted mongrels, hunting for food in the nearby woods.
The Guardian
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