Synonyms for natural parent

Grammar : Noun

Définition of natural parent

As in biological parent : noun birth mother or father
As in birth parent : noun biological parent

Example sentences :

The stepmother in this case stands in the place of the natural parent.
Extract from : « The History of Prostitution » by William W. Sanger

He can also inherit from his natural parent and kindred as if he had not been adopted.
Extract from : « Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman » by Albert Sidney Bolles

Madonna was loved then in France—loved as a natural parent, a real mother.
Extract from : « The Cathedral » by Joris-Karl Huysmans

It would be so nice to have a natural parent that was really interested in his daughter's affairs.
Extract from : « Somehow Good » by William de Morgan

This love was unconsciously visible in trifles: it is the natural parent of Good Taste.
Extract from : « Ernest Maltravers, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The Roman gens was patriarchal; the children inherited from their natural parent.
Extract from : « Woman and Socialism » by August Bebel

They are thrown to the cannibal for prey, and the natural parent prepares the unnatural repast.
Extract from : « The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume II » by Thomas Paine

How could he choose for his second father the very man who had deprived him of his first and natural parent?
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. » by Various

Constraint, he said, is the natural parent of resistance, and a pregnant proof that reason is not on the side of those who use it.
Extract from : « A History of Freedom of Thought » by John Bagnell Bury

Mr. Hastings passes by his natural parent, and appoints another woman.
Extract from : « The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VIII. (of 12) » by Edmund Burke

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