son
noun
a male child or person in relation to his parents.
sonless
-
a word derived from
son.
Example Sentences
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Distaff: Button-popping with pride was pop-eyed Eddie Cantor, sonless father of five; a daughter had popped up with bells on in show business.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sons had Ornulf seven, by the great gods granted;— lonely now and life-sick goes the greybeard, sonless.
From The Vikings of Helgeland The Prose Dramas Of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. III. by Henrik Ibsen
So dear father took a stroll out into the village, and being sonless adopted a young boy as the head of his house.
From The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration by Frances Little
When the second Marquis Cornwallis died sonless, the marquisate became extinct, but the earldom passed to his first cousin.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various
After that Jan said no more of this matter for many years; indeed I believe that from the first he desired to keep the child, he who was sonless.
From Swallow: a tale of the great trek by Henry Rider Haggard
