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motherless

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moth·er·less  (mr-ls)
adj.
1. Having no living mother.
2. Having no known mother.
mother·less·ness n.
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Adj.1.motherless - having no living or known mother
parentless, unparented - having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates


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For some years the poor man lived on alone with the children, caring for them as best he could; but everything in the house seemed to go wrong without a woman to look after it, and at last he made up his mind to marry again, feeling that a wife would bring peace and order to his household and take care of his motherless children.
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Now, Leandre's business called him frequently and upon long journeys from home, and his motherless daughter was coming to stay with her aunts at Cote Joyeuse.
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But by this means they could not only enjoy the slow advent of their pleasure; they had also ample leisure to talk of Silas Marner's strange history, and arrive by due degrees at the conclusion that he had brought a blessing on himself by acting like a father to a lone motherless child.
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