orphanize

English

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Etymology

From orphan +‎ -ize.

Verb

orphanize (third-person singular simple present orphanizes, present participle orphanizing, simple past and past participle orphanized)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To orphan.
    • 1838, Alexander Campbell, William Kimbrough Pendleton, Charles Louis Loos, The Millennial Harbinger:
      But you would orphanize creation, deny that God is the Father of all spirits, and forbid needy, lost man to address him as such.

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