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Foundling hospital   /fˈaʊndlɪŋ hˈɑspˌɪtəl/   Listen
Foundling hospital

noun
1.
A hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for.  Synonym: creche.






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"Foundling hospital" Quotes from Famous Books



... of London, in consequence of the anti-Christian machinations of the Pope; that after lying about unburied for three days and a half we were to come to life again; and finally, that we should conspicuously ascend to heaven, in front, perhaps, of the Foundling Hospital. ...
— Selections from Previous Works - and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals • Samuel Butler

... Foundling Hospital in Paris. He had been apprenticed to the MM. Didot, and between the ages of fourteen and seventeen he was David Sechard's fanatical worshiper. David put him under one of the cleverest workmen, and ...
— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac

... 9 children dying of tuberculosis at the foundling hospital 4 proved to have derived their infection from human sources and 5 from bovine, ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... that these institutions, however charitable and humane their object, are to be viewed as conveniences for murdering an infant without the actual violence at which humanity revolts. The proportion of abandoned children who live is so exceedingly small, that abandonment of a child to a foundling hospital is scarcely less than murder. If the child live, it may be viewed, almost, as a direct act ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various



Words linked to "Foundling hospital" :   hospital, infirmary



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