foundling

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1. foundling - Noun

2. foundling - Verb

Meaning

A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner.

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When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity. Samuel Laman Blanchard

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family. George Boardman the Younger

In his later years, he took a deep interest in the fate of the strange foundling Kaspar Hauser who had excited so much attention in Europe. Source: Internet

How adoptions originate The New York Foundling Home is among North America's oldest adoption agencies Adoptions can occur either between related family members, or unrelated individuals. Source: Internet

In response, family preservation efforts grew M. Gottlieb, The Foundling, 2001, page 106 so that few children born out of wedlock today are adopted. Source: Internet

Through the Pharaoh's daughter (identified as Queen Bithia in the Midrash ), the child was adopted as a foundling from the Nile river and grew up with the Egyptian royal family. Source: Internet

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