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From Middle English childles; equivalent to child +‎ -less.

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childless (not comparable)

  1. Not having any children.
    • 1899, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter I, in The Sleeper Awakes[1]:
      I am a lone wolf, a solitary man, wandering through a world in which I have no part. I am wifeless—childless—who is it speaks of the childless as the dead twigs on the tree of life?

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