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Pronunciation: [fˈa͡ʊndlɪŋ] (IPA)

A foundling is a term used to describe an abandoned child who has been found without any identification. There are several synonyms for this word, including abandoned child, orphan, and castaway. Other synonyms for foundling include waif, homeless child, and stray child. These terms all describe the same situation of a child being alone and without family. Foundling is a term typically used in legal contexts or historical documents, while other synonyms may be more frequently used in literature or colloquially. Despite the various terminology, it is important to remember that these children are in need of care and support, both emotional and financial.

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    • Noun, singular or mass
      orphan.

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Usage examples for Foundling

The daughter of Pharaoh adopted the perilous foundling, and educated him in the wisdom of Egypt.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
One of the most interesting and important institutions of the city is its remarkable foundling Hospital, which is conducted by the Government at an annual expense of five millions of dollars.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Nowhere perhaps in her works do we find this tendency so strikingly illustrated as in the one now under consideration; for here we have the study of a human being who, by stress of circumstances, developes into a most abnormal specimen of mankind, yet who is brought back to normal conditions and to wholesome relations with his fellow-men by such a natural process as the re-awakening of benumbed sympathies through his love for the little foundling child.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind

Famous quotes with Foundling

  • A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
    Lady Bird Johnson
  • 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
  • He makes his inevitable pilgrimage to the dungeons of the Spanish Inquisition, though without pausing to acquaint himself with the Inquisition's actual history or any of the recent scholarship on it. He more or less explicitly states that every episode of violence in Christian history is a natural consequence of Christianity's basic tenets (which is obviously false), and that Christianity's twenty centuries of unprecedented and still unmatched moral triumphs – its care of widows and orphans, its alms-houses, hospitals, foundling homes, schools, shelters, relief organizations, soup kitchens, medical missions, charitable aid societies, and so on – are simply expressions of normal human kindness, with no necessary connection to Christian conviction (which is even more obviously false).
    Sam Harris
  • When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.
    Samuel Laman Blanchard

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