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disparented

disparented adjective: having been deprived of one's parents.

Adjective

disparented (not comparable)

  1. Having been deprived of one's parents
    • We will however take deliberate steps to help individual children, to help families tragically disparented as a result of HIV/AIDS, to help communities where orphan children outnumber the adult population and extreme poverty is ravaging opportunity, health, and joy.2012, “International Orphan Care”, in Impact Orphans, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2012
  2. (nonstandard) Having no parents; parentless, orphaned.
    • Here is a home for these disparented children, in many cases a more comfortable and a happier one than they have ever known before, where they are properly clothed, fed, and accommodated, receive instruction in the ordinary branches of common school education, are trained to habits of industry by...1853, Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New-York, Anunual Report, volume 28

Origin of disparented

From dis- + parented.

Questions about disparented

What does disparented mean?
Disparented means having been deprived of one's parents.
What part of speech is disparented?
Disparented is an adjective.

Words near disparented in the dictionary

  1. disparatenesses
  2. disparates
  3. disparencies
  4. disparency
  5. disparent
  6. disparented
  7. disparid
  8. disparids
  9. disparities
  10. disparition
  11. disparitions

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