1. Deprived of the status of a parent.
1650. B., Discolliminium, 38. Our Politicall Parents … are now unparented or civilly dead.
2. Deprived or destitute of a parent or parents.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., II. xii. 295. Orphan is un-parented.
1885. American, X. 333. The unparented suggestion that each newcomer should add a stone to the growing pile.
1897. Fortn. Rev., 1 Feb., 225. A family of five children, three brothers and two sisters, unparented.
