Meaning of babiless | Babel Free

Definitions

Rare form of babyless.

form-of, not-comparable, rare

Examples

“Susan B. Anthony declares that there are too many babies born into this world. There is one thing sure, Susan has no room to lay⟳ any of this “great wrong” at her own⟳ door. This world would have⟳ been a babiless wilderness long years ago if all women had been like⟳ Susan B.”

“[headline] Bayley Challenged; Longboat Babiless; Burns The Fighter […] Wants a Baby. […] Tom [Longboat] has been married now these many moons, and the runner has longings. No baby’s prattle has yet graced his wigwam. / He called up a Toronto paper and demanded that they send⟳ up a baby forthwith.”

“There are slang studies that are specifically on the denigration of females, such as Yusuf’s (1994) [previous quotation] which investigates the metaphorical transition of female undergraduates at Obafemi Awolowo University from “motherless babies” to “babiless mothers”. However, there is no corresponding study⟳ that targets male undergraduates and describes their transition from “fatherless babies” to “babiless fathers””

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