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orphanise

orphanise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of orphanize.

Meaning of orphanize

Verb

orphanize (third-person singular simple present orphanizes, present participle orphanizing, simple past and past participle orphanized)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To orphan.
    • But you would orphanize creation, deny that God is the Father of all spirits, and forbid needy, lost man to address him as such.1838, Alexander Campbell, William Kimbrough Pendleton, Charles Louis Loos, The Millennial Harbinger

Forms of orphanise

third-person singular presentorphanises
present participleorphanising
past participleorphanised
pastorphanised

Questions about orphanise

What is orphanise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Orphanise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of orphanize.

Words near orphanise in the dictionary

  1. orphanhoods
  2. orphanin
  3. orphaning
  4. orphaning off
  5. orphanins
  6. orphanise
  7. orphanish
  8. orphanism
  9. orphanity
  10. orphanize
  11. orphanized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orphanise (page history and authors); orphanize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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