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sonless

  • a word derived from son.
    son
    noun
    a male child or person in relation to his parents.

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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

They believed that Prince Carlo Alberto, who stood next but one in succession to the throne, though only a distant cousin of the sonless king, was in sympathy with them and would act with them.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

Old age was now creeping upon the sonless king.

From The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by Rawlinson, George

Time never can efface the glint of tears In palaces, in shops, in fields, in cots, From women widowed, sonless, fatherless, That then oppressed our eyes.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas

Since ye have opposed my lord in the matter of procreating a child when he was desirous of procreating one upon me, as the consequence of this act, ye deities, ye all shall become sonless.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan