unchild en · VERB
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English child English unchild From un- + child.
Meanings
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(obsolete, transitive) To make (someone) childless.
No appetite, that like the unchilded sea / […] hungers for such orts / As riot spares lean want, is yet so wide, / So vast of ravin or so blind in scope, / As can abide the chewed and perished meats / That relish died upon.
1860, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Rosamond. A Play.”, in The Queen-mother. Rosamond. Two Plays, London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], →OCLC, Act IV, page 201:Though in this city he / Hath widow'd and unchilded many a one, / Which to this hour bewail the injury, / Yet he shall have a noble memory.
c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi]:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unchilded | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unchilded | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| unchilding | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unchilds | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Relateds
Translations (5)
pt desfilhar (to make (someone) childless) · eo seninfanigi (to make (someone) childless) · grc ἀτεκνόω (to make (someone) childless) · fr désenfanter (to make (someone) childless) · es desahijar (to make (someone) childless)