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He smelled like a horse and made fun of their mothers, which was pretty low given the general motherlessness of the student population.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019

Or by other performers who might sing a line like “my clay-colored motherlessness rangily reclines”?

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2010

But then Doreen's education had been peculiar--different in many ways to that of other young ladies--partly on account of her motherlessness, partly because of the faith she professed.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

As he reviewed the facts he contrived to present a picture of Lydia's youthfulness, her motherlessness, of Thorne's early beginnings as a workingman, of his death leaving Lydia an orphan.

From Manslaughter by Miller, Alice Duer

But she had an unbounded confidence in the kindly maternity of Nature, and trusted her children to the breast of the Great Mother as freely as she did herself in her own motherlessness.

From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Harte, Bret