unchild

present singular third person unchilds · participle present unchilding · participle past unchilded · past unchilded

1. obsoletetransitiveTo make (someone) childless.

   Though in this city he / Hath widow'd and unchilded many a one, / Which to this hour bewail the injury, / Yet he shall have a noble memory.

   c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi]

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   No appetite, that like the unchilded sea / […] hungers for such orts / As riot spares lean want, is yet so wide, / So vast of ravin or so blind in scope, / As can abide the chewed and perished meats / That relish died upon.

   1860, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Rosamond. A Play.”, in The Queen-mother. Rosamond. Two Plays, London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], →OCLC, Act IV, page 201