orphanship

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• orphanship — noun a) The state of being an orphan. b) The losing of both parents through death …   Wiktionary

• Mary Moody Emerson — (1774 1863) was known not only as her nephew Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “earliest and best teacher,” but also as a “spirited and original genius in her own right” (Richardson on back cover of Origins). Ralph Waldo Emerson considered her presence in… …   Wikipedia