Hand in hand with these excesses, civil wars and the latifundia system, celibacy and childlessnessincreased in such measure that the number of Roman citizens and of patricians ran down considerably.
Exactly the reverse of the custom among the Romans during the Empire, of allowing celibacy andchildlessness to gain the upper hand, was the custom prevalent among the Jews.
Then the king said to her--"I have all prosperity, but the one grief of childlessnessafflicts me, O queen.
But as he was munificent, that gold was not enough for him, especially as his childlessness made the pleasure of giving the sole pleasure to which he was addicted.
With regard to the first he argues that the brood of the ungodly is unstable and accursed: better is childlessness with virtue.
The scheme has been frustrated by the childlessness of the wife.
He hides from himself the fact that her childlessness is a curse which is blighting her.
Jesus declared that the days would come whenchildlessness would be a ground for congratulation because of the universal distress.
Meanwhile, until it would be evident that her “reproach” for childlessness had been taken away, Elisabeth lived in strict retirement.
This trial was peculiarly great among a people who regarded childlessness as a sign of divine displeasure and it was even more distressing to the hearts of the faithful who were yearning for the birth of the promised Messiah.
It is an important part of Chinese teaching that the most unfilial of sons is he who has no children: the reason being, of course, that childlessness means the extinction of the family and the cessation of the ancestral sacrifices.
Also maternity is then a glory, and childlessness a shame; and Rachel said, "Give me children, or else I die.
After eight years of childlessness the king became in October the father of a son.
The wound dealt her by her childlessness had always remained open.
The loss of her son, the childlessness to which she was condemned, all threw her into a state of morbid perversity, fraught with dreams of some monstrous vengeance which she dared not even confess to herself.
One may at first be astonished thatchildlessness is so frequently mentioned as characteristic of women in the Scriptures.
Only, in Israel, childlessness was accounted a calamity, if not a direct visitation of the Almighty.
When Rebekah had been pregnant seven months,[11] she began to wish that the curse of childlessness had not been removed from her.
She makes the impression of a righteous, pious woman, but she is not, for if she were, how could her childlessness be explained after so many years of marriage, while I became pregnant at once?
As long as Abraham and Sarah dwelt outside of the Holy Land, they looked upon their childlessness as a punishment for not abiding within it.
God had promised Abraham a numerous progeny, and he thought their childlessness was probably Rebekah's fault, and it was her duty to supplicate God, and not his.
There was more, for the state considered childlessness and especially no sons in a family unfortunate, as it was thought such a condition lessened the ties between citizen and state.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "childlessness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
