unmother
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "How we lace away The hours interminable, Intricate and Pale, we nuns And all such unmothers of men;"
- "There is experimentation with sexuality, monogamy and nonmonogamy, mothers and "unmothers," parenting by groups of bilogical and/or fictive kins, living in separate households and coparenting, etc."
- "So there are mothers and unmothers, and while neither choice is the easy one to make, motherhood is at least the comfortable one."
- "One day modi mother and unmothered. True twinnes in birth and death ; together drown in this sad stream."
- "My father is departed, I with thee am fallen — thyself art dead and gone : but our foes laugh ; and our unmothered mother is frantic with delight; on whom thou oftentimes wouldst send me word in secret that thou wert on the point thyself to come an avenger."
- "I e'en quake to proceed, my spirit turns edge, I fear me she's unmother'd; yet I'll venture."
Etymology
From un- + mother.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un