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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Should she succeed, she would be a penniless unmarried female with a daughter, her child would be unfathered and base, and he,—as far as she could see,—would be beyond the reach of punishment.
From Lady Anna by Trollope, Anthony
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
And my dear little unmothered, unfathered boy, how happy I could make him!
From Story of Waitstill Baxter by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
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
And before it had come on for trial the case of Aurora Lane and her unfathered boy.
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Hough, Emerson
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