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Sonless

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sonless

late 14c., from son + -less.

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sonless

a. Without a son.

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.