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foundling

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted dfgilnnouStarts with FEnds with G0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown

Word origin

From Middle English foundlyng, fondeyng, variants of Middle English fyndling, fyndlyng. By surface analysis, found + -ling.

Used in a sentence

  • foundling hospital
  • In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities, the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people.
  • Moses was a foundling; Jesus Christ was born in a stable; and Mahomet was a mule driver.

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