Crossword clues for sonless
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
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.