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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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
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 Lang, Andrew
It was one of those vagrant, orphan poems with fine family lineaments that find their way unfathered into odd corners of papers.
From Quiet Talks on Service by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)
Such masses of humanity; such dim, uncertain origins of unfathered races; these can only be caught and seen as through a glass darkly.
From Flash-lights from the Seven Seas by McConnell, Francis John
The question of the maintenance of such unfathered children is a scandal of our time.
From The Truth About Woman by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
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