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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