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- noun The state or condition of being
motherless .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She did not receive much information about her grandmother but she was aware of the profound impact that "motherlessness" had on her own mother.
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Since that night on the Nile when my baby was born I had felt my motherlessness most acutely; having lost my own mother when I was twelve, I had no idea how to be a mother myself.
The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009
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Since that night on the Nile when my baby was born I had felt my motherlessness most acutely; having lost my own mother when I was twelve, I had no idea how to be a mother myself.
The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009
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Since that night on the Nile when my baby was born I had felt my motherlessness most acutely; having lost my own mother when I was twelve, I had no idea how to be a mother myself.
The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009
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Since that night on the Nile when my baby was born I had felt my motherlessness most acutely; having lost my own mother when I was twelve, I had no idea how to be a mother myself.
The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009
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In the production notes, Ms. Kampmeier divides her scenario into nine themes: darkness into light, motherlessness, the cycle of abuse, silencing (a reference to the 12 years it took her to make the film as a deplorable example of discrimination against woman directors), female sexuality, fecundity of the feminine, snake medicine, raw poetry and music (most notably the insight that Elvis appropriated or misappropriated the Negro blues for his own purposes).
Down South 2008
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The first symptom of her motherlessness was that our sisterly scrapes turned biblical.
The Almost Archer Sisters Lisa Gabriele 2008
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FOTF has never been concerned about “motherlessness” in divorce.
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There was something pathetic about the motherlessness of the picture, and he understood a little of what Stevens had meant.
The Hunted Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903
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Nature, and trusted her children to the breast of the Great Mother as freely as she did herself in her own motherlessness.
Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte 1869
qroqqa commented on the word motherlessness
When for months there was no sign or sound of her, he sighed and relived that time when his house was full of motherlessness—and the chief unmothering was Wild's.
—Toni Morrison, Jazz
December 30, 2008