1. Deprived of motherly feelings.
1607. Tourneur, Rev. Trag., II. i. I e’en quake to proceed, my spirit turns edge, I fear me she’s unmother’d.
2. Deprived or destitute of a mother.
1847. H. Bushnell, Chr. Nurt., iii. (1861), 65. The young go forth untended, or unmothered.
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, I. 95. Nursing me, Unmothered little child of four years old.
1876. Swinburne, Erechtheus, 1057. Thralls of no man’s blood, Unchilded and unmothered.
