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unfathered

/uhn-fah-therd/US // ʌnˈfɑ ðərd //UK // (ʌnˈfɑːðəd) //

未受保护的,未受保护,未成年的,未成年

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having no father; fatherless.
    • : of illegitimate or unknown paternity; bastard.
    • : not ascribable to a particular author or source: unfathered tales.

Examples

  • Unfathered, un-f′thėrd, adj. having no father, fatherless: not acknowledged by its father.

  • But he turned to his own family, then as always afterwards, with an affection stimulated by his unfathered state in England.

  • The son of nobody, a being unfathered in the eye of the law, is the brother of nobody.

  • It was one of those vagrant, orphan poems with fine family lineaments that find their way unfathered into odd corners of papers.

  • And before it had come on for trial the case of Aurora Lane and her unfathered boy.