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Childlessness

noun
1.
The condition of being without offspring.





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"Childlessness" Quotes from Famous Books



... permitted to retire from the burning hall, but the saga has no such statement. The war of foul words between Granmar and Sinfjoetli is left in the saga, and the cause of Gudrod's death is changed from rivalry over a woman to anger over a division of war booty. In Sigmund's lament over his childlessness we have another of the poet's additions, and certainly we find no fault with ...
— The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature • Conrad Hjalmar Nordby


Words linked to "Childlessness" :   state of affairs, situation, childless


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