Willful neglect: alternatives and connections

A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be; as, adolescent, effervescent, etc.

The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride's father’

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astat…

To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.

The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.

A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were H…

temporary love of an adolescent

A colorless, inflammable, poisonous gas, C2N2, with a peach-blossom odor, so called from its tendency to form blue compounds; obtained…

of Delinquency

Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.

The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meani…

the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it; "the ends…

The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.

A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bo…

A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestri…