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orphancy

noun

Etymology

From orphan + -cy.

  1. derived from *h₃órbʰos✻
  2. derived from ὀρφανός
  3. derived from orphanus
  4. formed as orphancy — “orphan + -cy”

Definitions

  1. The state of being an orphan.

  2. The losing of both parents through their death.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for orphancy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA