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orphan
noun as in child without parents
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McLaughlin stars as the eponymous orphan who learns about his magical heritage after he receives his acceptance letter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
“Yes, yes, paupers and grubby orphans; it is all quite tragic.”
Christian magazine Charisma further explained that throughout the Bible, “God commands His people to ‘defend the fatherless’ and to care for orphans with compassion, justice and sacrificial love.”
"How much mourning? How many widows? How many orphans? How much pain do we carry -- personally, institutionally, and patriotically -- because of drug trafficking?"
A Vermont couple raised an orphaned beaver kit and prepared it to return to the wild.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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