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Stepchild   /stˈɛptʃˌaɪld/   Listen
noun
Stepchild  n.  
1.
A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother. (Obs.)
2.
A son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.





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"Stepchild" Quotes from Famous Books



... his end always reminds me of the closing line of Pinero's play, when the adventuress, Mrs. Tanqueray, kills herself, and her virtuous stepchild says: "If we had ...
— Real Soldiers of Fortune • Richard Harding Davis
... which gets a name given to it. It is only places which somebody loves or hates, in which somebody is one way or other interested, which get new names given them. Nobody, or nobody in high authority, took an interest in this camp. It was a stepchild among camps, neither attractive enough to be loved nor disagreeable enough ...
— A Padre in France • George A. Birmingham


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