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Having no male offspring
Answer for the clue "Having no male offspring ", 7 letters:
sonless
Alternative clues for the word sonless
Word definitions for sonless in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Without a son.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from son + -less .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sonless \Son"less\, a. Being without a son. --Marston. As no baron who was sonless could give a husband to his daughter, save with his lord's consent. --J. R. Green.
Usage examples of sonless.
Should Beltran die sonless, Alaric is the king’s next heir, and I think he knows it.
His mind ranged over those pathetic, prosperous, sonless men who filed into the club late in the afternoons, and over the last editions and whisky-and-sodas fought their futile warfare, their battle-ground a newspaper map, their upraised voices their only weapons.
My father did not raise me as a boy, as many sonless men do with their girlings, but he did breed independence in me.