unfathered
Americanadjective
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having no father; fatherless.
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of illegitimate or unknown paternity; bastard.
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not ascribable to a particular author or source.
unfathered tales.
adjective
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having no known father
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of unknown or uncertain origin
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archaic fatherless
Etymology
Origin of unfathered
Example Sentences
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In reality Spring Valley was out to hear the rest of the news about Aurora Lane and her unfathered boy as soon as possible.
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Emerson Hough
And before it had come on for trial the case of Aurora Lane and her unfathered boy.
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Emerson Hough
And then the big boys: the hulking Lawrences; the lazy Neills, unfathered sons of mother and daughter; Hickman, with a stoop in his shoulders; and the rest.
From Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various
But he turned to his own family, then as always afterwards, with an affection stimulated by his unfathered state in England.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
In the same way an unfathered joke of Lockhart’s was attributed to Sydney Smith, and the process is constantly illustrated in daily conversation.
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Andrew Lang
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