Unfather
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Unfather is a noun meaning A man who is not a father.
Meaning
A man who is not a father.
More Meanings
- To cause someone to become less of a father.
- To cause someone to be fatherless.
Example Sentences
More strongly still: "Visitation unfathers men. This phenomenon gradually strangles the father-child relationship."
Wendell's mother unfathers him twice-over (through dislike of her first husband) by giving him her maiden name and claiming his conception was immaculate (R, 20, 46-47).
A son no son, unfathers me. Earth, sky and deep, rise, come, be father for me: ascend before him into the day, to cover him from all his light, and your annihilation fall on him!
Yet how is the unfathering related to usurpation? Is the situation as Oedipal as its rhetoric suggests? Oedipus encounters and kills a traveler on the road outside Thebes, and by doing so unfathers himself.
Word Forms
- unfathers
- unfathering
- unfathered
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include vapour, unmother, nonmother, nonparent, nonman, nonchild.
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