Crossword clues for fatherless
fatherless
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fatherless \Fa"ther*less\, a.
Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child.
Without a known author.
--Beau. & Fl.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English fæderleas; see father (n.) + -less. Similar formation in Dutch vaderloos, German vaterlos, Danish faderlös.
Wiktionary
a. Without a living father.
WordNet
adj. having no living father
not having a known or legally responsible father
Usage examples of "fatherless".
Father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
The two large-headed fatherless waifs staring at me from the corner suggested another similarity between the two women.
And now along the pavement trails a little fatherless family in rags, poor unhappy exiles of Erin, our sad sister-island.
Perhaps his mother in heaven was praying her heart out to the Blessed Virgin to watch over her fatherless darling cast adrift upon the world!
He was looking for the little fatherless one who owned his own blood and bore his name.
He has remembered these fatherless ones, he has fed them, and he has enabled them to become what you see!
Thou hast conjured me out of the mighty democratic elements--clothe me: my raiment shall be woven by fatherless children.
A God who comes out of His place to visit the wrong done on the earth, and be a refuge for the oppressed, and a help in time of trouble, to help the fatherless and poor unto their right, that the men of this world be no more exalted against them.
Wander the world with fatherless tattooed to my soul or, at the very least, my forehead?
Her heart ached for Sissy, who would now rock her fatherless child alone, with only the rhythm of the swamp as company.
Memories of her as a small child, growing up fatherless in Freehold, without the grounding or kinship to the other children, always feeling that she was somehow different.
What if Sain, in her grief, her new Daish son fatherless, turned to wed Chazen Sanl, whose remaining wife was also carrying a child of Daish blood?
On thy head rest the burden of the deed, and in thy ears ring the groans of the dying and the cries of the widows and those who are left fatherless for ever and for ever.
I know that he careth for the fatherless and widow, and executes judgment and justice for all those who are oppressed with wrong.
This endurance made old Earnshaw furious, when he discovered his son persecuting the poor fatherless child, as he called him.