Foundling
['faʊndlɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown.
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Definition
(v. t.) A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Abandoned infant.
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Examples
- All the bells of Sabbath were ringing, and she followed them until she came to the Foundling Church, into which she went. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If Plato's 'pen' was as fatal as the Creches of Paris, or the foundling hospital of Dublin, more than nine-tenths of his children would have perished. Plato. The Republic.
- So one day, five or six years ago now, when we took Pet to church at the Foundling--you have heard of the Foundling Hospital in London? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities, the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I shan't leave my money to be poured down the sink, and I shan't leave it to foundlings from Africay. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- All the children born in his state are foundlings. Plato. The Republic.
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