noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The care and support of orphans. dated, rare, uncountable

   "We endure our abuses of orphanotrophism even when they are repulsive to the heathen Chinee."

Synonyms

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orphanotrophy

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"We endure our abuses of orphanotrophism even when they are repulsive to the heathen Chinee."

Etymology

From orphan + -o- + -trophism. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a misreading of orphanotrophium.

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