Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no sister.

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  • adjective Without a sister.

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Examples

  • If Perkins was brotherless and sisterless, was not Lucy likewise an only child?

    The Bedford-Row Conspiracy 2006

  • To be with Ethel was perpetual delight — she astonished this sisterless youngster with a thousand feminine niceties and refinements.

    Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

  • Now, Alberich had no more notion of how such things were done than any other sisterless bachelor.

    Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • Now, Alberich had no more notion of how such things were done than any other sisterless bachelor.

    Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • She stopped abruptly; she had divined the truth, and her eyes grew softer with such tender pity as not yet had shone for me -- motherless, sisterless -- on any woman's face.

    Cecilia de Noël Lanoe Falconer

  • To be with Ethel was perpetual delight -- she astonished this sisterless youngster with a thousand feminine niceties and refinements.

    Love and Mr. Lewisham 1906

  • And many a dull day when it was too rainy to go a walk, and too cloudy to be "any use" to gaze out at the front of the house, did these poor children, little as they guessed it, help to make pass more quickly and pleasantly for the sisterless maiden.

    Little Miss Peggy: Only a Nursery Story 1887

  • Fatherless, motherless, brotherless, sisterless -- a lone man, he passed forth into the great and terrible wilderness of Judaea, which is so desolate that the Jews called it the abomination of desolation.

    John the Baptist 1888

  • And Captain Victor, in his turn, looked into the future, and saw his Bridgie left sisterless in this strange town, bereft all day long of the society of the sweetest and most understanding of companions, and he, too, sighed, and asked himself what was the hurry.

    The Love Affairs of Pixie George de Horne Vaizey 1887

  • Constance, motherless and sisterless, and with no woman friend to turn to more understanding than Annette, had been surprised in passionate weeping by Nora, the night after the

    Lady Connie Humphry Ward 1885

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