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Foundling vs Boundling - What's the difference?

foundling | boundling |

As nouns the difference between foundling and boundling

is that foundling is an abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place while boundling is one who is bound.

foundling

English

Noun

  • An abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place.
  • * 1749', (Henry Fielding), '' .
  • * 1776 , (Adam Smith), ,
    • In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities, the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people.
  • * 1794 , (Thomas Paine), (Part I) ,
    • Moses was a foundling ; Jesus Christ was born in a stable; and Mahomet was a mule driver.

    Derived terms

    * foundling wheel

    See also

    * oblate

    Anagrams

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    boundling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is bound.
  • *1909 , Charles Norris Williamson, Alice Muriel Williamson, Set in silver :
    • And we were starting to hook ourselves on to the tail end of the dwindling procession, quite on friendly terms, when to my horror that young English cadlet — or boundling , which you will — strolled calmly out in front of us, [...]
  • *1991 , Douglas Oliver, Three variations on the theme of harm :
    • Always, always look in the darkest thickets for the boundlings , a curious myth in which babies are rescued from their light covering of troubles if found in time.
  • *1993 , Rodney Cole, So you want to take physics :
    • The astronauts in Sky Lab made some films of acrobatics in a zero-gravity environment that amazed us earth-boundlings .
  • *2002 , Karl Finatzer, Bushpilots tales :
    • [...] sing old songs and have always had the desire to make love to middle-aged women in the backseat of old cars. But most of all, I like old airplanes. In some strange way they open up a door to the past that is closed to earth boundlings .