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orphanotrophism

noun

Etymology

From orphan + -o- + -trophism. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a misreading of orphanotrophium.

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

Definitions

  1. The care and support of orphans.

    • We endure our abuses of orphanotrophism even when they are repulsive to the heathen Chinee.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for orphanotrophism. 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