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Mnemonically, an orphan is "alone at the bottom" (of the family tree but, in this case, of the page). Runt (sometimes called widow or orphan) A word, part of a word, or a very short line that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph. Mnemonically still "alone at the bottom", just this time at the bottom of a paragraph.
She donated to the Protestant Episcopal Home as well and gave to Jewish charities in New Orleans. In her will she gave to the Seventh Street Protestant Orphan Asylum, the German Protestant Orphan Asylum, the German Orphan Catholic Asylum, the Widows and Orphans of Jews Asylum, and to the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, and many others.
Orphan A short word or phrase that's carried over to a new column or page; also called a widow. What Gavin Ambrose and Paul Harris say [2]: Widow A lone word at the end of a paragraph. Orphan Orphans are the final one or two lines of a paragraph separated from the main paragraph to form a new column.
Widow-and-orphan stock generally refers to a low-risk equity investment paying a high dividend. These stocks belong to large, mature companies in non-cyclical business sectors. Because of their low...
The term widowhood can be used for either sex, at least according to some dictionaries, [6] [7] but the word widowerhood is also listed in some dictionaries. [8] [9] An archaic term for a widow is "relict", [10] literally "someone left over"; this word can sometimes be found on older gravestones. Occasionally, the word viduity is used. [11]
"It dawned on me the other day: I'm a widow, I'm an orphan, because my mother also passed, and I'm an empty nester all at the same time," she said. "If you're not careful, what you've lost in life ...
A Second Home: Orphan Asylums and Poor Families in America (1997) ISBN 0674796446; Herman, Ellen. "Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States (2008) ISBN 978-0-226-32760-0; Kleinberg, S. J. Widows And Orphans First: The Family Economy And Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939 (2006) ISBN 0252030206; Miller, Julie.
After losing her husband Nick Cordero to coronavirus last year, Amanda Kloots has spoken out about why she hates the term widow.