orphanize
English
Alternative forms
- orphanise (non-Oxford British spelling)
Verb
orphanize (third-person singular simple present orphanizes, present participle orphanizing, simple past and past participle orphanized)
- (transitive) To orphan.
- 1838, Alexander Campbell, William Kimbrough Pendleton, Charles Louis Loos, The Millennial Harbinger:
- But you would orphanize creation, deny that God is the Father of all spirits, and forbid needy, lost man to address him as such.
Translations
orphanize — see orphan
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