orphanhood

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• In a chapter discussing the origins of genius, he considered parental loss and orphanhood, birth order, cultural enrichment, role models, formal education, and the Zeitgeist.

  Blog text (1)

• "The Bibles, the hymns, the recitations, the church camps, and especially the major national holidays had combined to become an unconscious astringent that scrubbed Korean and Vietnamese minds clean by breaking down the stains of war and orphanhood.

  Academic text (2009)

• Better not even imagine relief from orphanhood.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The consequences must have been more extreme in Jamaica because orphanhood and remarriage were more likely.

  Academic text (1994)

• The second is that government programs that protect people from the exigencies of labor markets, or of old age, or orphanhood, or disability, make people more secure.

  Blog text (27)

• Orphanhood presided at my birth, curdling my attributes, converting whatever might have been nice to not so nice.

  Fiction book (2001)

• "You say," even had said, glad God had promised such a bold swear, because cold gray rain that fell for days on end made him feel the low ceiling of orphanhood as nothing else he'd ever encountered.

  Fiction book (1999)

• When the twelve volleyball players left Peru, there was a sense of abandonment apropos to orphanhood.

  Academic text (1994)

• The consequences of such high rates of orphanhood for Jamaican society must have been enormous, with repercussions for such matters as the transmission of property, arrangements for management of property and children both on a personal and state level, and on the character of relationships in a fragile and fraught society.

  Academic text (1994)

• Solitude and orphanhood are similar forms of emptiness," writes Paz, "but through magical means, the orphan creates his or her own world and resolves the impasse of solitude.

  Academic text (2014)

Synonyms

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orphanage

vsorphanhood

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The condition of having no living parents

is the same meaning but formed with a different noun ending

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Etymology