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
- : 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.
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