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  2. Orphan - Wikipedia

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    An orphan is a child whose parents have died, are unknown or have permanently abandoned them. It can also refer to a child who has lost only one parent, as the Hebrew translation, for example, is "fatherless".

  3. Widows and orphans - Wikipedia

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    The last line of a paragraph continuing on to a new page (highlighted yellow) is a widow (sometimes called an orphan). In typesetting , widows and orphans are single lines of text from a paragraph that dangle at either the beginning or end of a block of text, or form a very short final line at the end of a paragraph. [ 1 ]

  4. Unpaired word - Wikipedia

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    An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.

  5. List of orphans and foundlings - Wikipedia

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    While the exact definition of orphan and foundlings varies, one legal definition is a child bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents". [1] According to the United Nations, the definition of an orphan is anyone that loses one parent, either through death or abandonment.

  6. Orphans and vulnerable children - Wikipedia

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    A child could be considered an orphan if one parent has died especially if that parent was the provider for the family. [ 3 ] The label of "orphans and vulnerable children" came into regular use, it is believed, [ by whom? ] in the early 1990s at the time the United Nations Children's fund (UNICEF) brought attention to children who were being ...

  7. Chutzpah - Wikipedia

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    In the same work, Rosten also defines the term as "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan". Chutzpah amounts to a total denial of personal responsibility, which renders others speechless and incredulous. [9]

  8. Orphanage - Wikipedia

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    Plaque where once stood the ruota ("the wheel"), the place to abandon children at the side of the Chiesa della Pietà, the church of an orphanage in Venice.The plaque cites on a Papal bull by Paul III dated 12 November 1548, threatens "excommunication and maledictions" for all those who – having the means to rear a child – choose to abandon him/her instead.

  9. Orbona - Wikipedia

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    This relates to the goddess Orbona from Roman myths because she is an orphan, though accompanied by a robot she calls Muthr who has raised her in the underground sanctuary, and she wanted to find others like her- like a parent who wants a child, or vice versa.