| 词汇 | foundling |
| 释义 | foundling noun[ C ] old-fashioneduk /ˈfaʊnd.lɪŋ/ us /ˈfaʊnd.lɪŋ/ a young child who is left by its parents and then found and cared for by someone else弃婴，弃儿 Parents & children baby mama babyhood babymoon bastard brat guardianship identical twin illegitimacy illegitimately parent parentage parental parentally parenthood step-parent the generation gap triplet tug of love twin without issueidiom Besides, deformed and ailing children were cared for and homes for foundlings were established. I am only a foundling who fell into kind hands. I have a strong fatherly instinct and all the foundlings are foisted on me. I was a foundling. Then you do not think of putting her in a foundling hospital or a workhouse, nephew, as you proposed last night? said Mrs. Margaret, with a smile. Examples of foundlingfoundling The foundlings may therefore have come from parishes containing wealthy individuals, but also a large degree of poverty and indigence. Given this problem, we do not feel confident making any claims about the historical trends in proportions of foundlings marrying. This sample is used to establish the backgrounds of foundlings, their geographic origins and their legitimacy status between 1741 and 1760. At that time, 152 girls and women - including 21 over age 60 - lived in the foundling home. What is challenged is the assertion that the foundlings were almost all the products of this new mode of behaviour. Initial investigations do not refute the possibility that the foundlings were predominately illegitimate. The secondary sample, introduced on page 13 and in note 34, consists of the 1,056 foundlings whose age information came from billets and notes (above). The female foundlings did not, however, all follow the same path in their transition to adulthood. The dowry played a crucial role in facilitating the marriage of female foundlings. In the 1820s, the foundling home recorded 121 marriages of its female foundlings (for whom a dowry was paid) and, in the 1830s, 244. The foundling homes saw themselves as the guardians of the female foundlings' honour. In the case of a foundling woman, however, no such restraint was to be found.$! Secondly, there was no family force to serve as a brake on the foundling's marriage. By contrast, the male foundlings were in a much less favourable position. This was the privileged path for those few foundlings who entered a religious order and lived the rest of their lives in convents. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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