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English
Etymology
un- + child
Verb
unchild (third-person singular simple present unchilds, present participle unchilding, simple past and past participle unchilded)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make someone childless.
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :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.
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