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unfathers

unfathers is the plural of unfather.

unfathers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unfather.

Meaning of unfather

Noun

unfather (plural unfathers)

  1. A man who is not a father.
    • But this delugic force is not truly akin to those unfathers until Wordsworth recovers from total loss and, in a moment of specular identification, recognizes in that errant power the face of his own soul: "And now recovering, to my Soul I say/'I recognise thy glory'"1994, David Collings, Wordsworthian errancies: the poetics of cultural dismemberment

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Questions about unfathers

What is unfathers the plural of?
Unfathers is the plural of unfather.

Words near unfathers in the dictionary

  1. unfathered
  2. unfathering
  3. unfatherlike
  4. unfatherliness
  5. unfatherly
  6. unfathers
  7. unfathom
  8. unfathomability
  9. unfathomable
  10. unfathomableness
  11. unfathomably

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