Foundling

Word FOUNDLING
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Definitions and meanings of "Foundling"

What do we mean by foundling?

A deserted or abandoned child of unknown parentage. noun

An infant found abandoned or exposed; a child without a parent or claimant. noun

A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. noun

A hospital for foundlings. noun

An abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place. noun

A child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown noun

An abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place.

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The word "foundling" in example sentences

You see, sir, I'm a poor foundling from the Belfast Asylum, shoved out by the mother that bore me, upon the wide wurld, long before I knew that I was in it. ❋ Unknown (1852)

So they call the foundling "Mary Rose" and make a solemn oath to stick together and make a good life "for the roses". ❋ Fantasyecho (2008)

Their foundling was the rightful King of Birnam-and small wonder there were assassins seeking him. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1992)

A foundling is a foundling, anywhere in Thorbardin. ❋ Parkinson, Dan (1990)

“But this so-called foundling is a perfect monster of abomination, ” said Jehanne. ❋ Unknown (1917)

But when his comrade, the true father, heard this tale from him he said to himself, "This matter must have been after such fashion," and he was certified that the foundling was his son, for that he had heard the history told by the mother of the babe with the same details essential and accidental. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

The Magi, to their credit, told Astyages that his dream had been fulfilled, that Cyrus -- as we must now call the foundling prince -- had fulfilled it by becoming a king in play, and the boy is let to go back to his father and his hardy Persian life. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

Though called a foundling hospital, it is in reality a general receptacle for all children, who are received up to a certain age, without exception, it being left entirely to the option of the parent to state their names and condition, and to contribute or not, to the future support of the child. ❋ Robert Heywood (1827)

In the first half of the film, brother and sister Guillaume (Olivier Cruveiller) and Catherine (Fabienne Babe) are living together on a crumbling estate after their father's death, along with the "foundling" Roch (Lucas Belvaux) who their father adopted. ❋ Ed Howard (2009)

The children, when they were out of their father's hearing, began again to mock little Crivòliu and to call him "foundling," and the other children in the school did the same. ❋ Thomas Frederick Crane (N/A)

Then he could no longer stand being called "foundling," and went to the fisherman and his wife, and said: "Dear parents, I entreat you to tell me whether I am your child or not." ❋ Thomas Frederick Crane (N/A)

The word "foundling" was for me like an opening blind in a dark chamber of boorishness and provincialism, suddenly revealing a vista of distant, mistily romantic perspectives. ❋ Frederik Van Eeden (1896)

And lifting the heavy velvet portiere at the door, he held it back for his "foundling" to pass, -- and then slowly followed. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

Cardinal Bonpre and his "foundling" Manuel from Rome. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

One indication that the world, at any rate the Western world, has actually improved somewhat is that the word "foundling" has pretty much fallen out of usage, to the disadvantage of no one but novelists. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You lived with an Indian woman and were a "-- no, she could not say" foundling "to this beautiful girl, who might have been born to the purple, so fine was her figure, her air, the very atmosphere surrounding her. ❋ Amanda Minnie Douglas (1873)

Michener was a foundling discovered in Doylestown, Pa., and he was raised as a Quaker. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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