не помнящий родства

• НЕ ПОМНЯЩИЙ РОДСТВА{{}}

[AdjP; modif]

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1. obs (a person) without a family (said of a person who does not have a family or who refuses to provide information about his family):

- without any roots;

- not knowing one's roots;

- without (kith or) kin.

     ♦ [Незнамов:] ...Что же я за фигуру буду представлять из себя? Бродяга, не помнящий родства, и человек без определенных занятий! (Островский 3). [N.:] What will become of me then-a tramp without kith or kin or a worthy occupation? (3a).

2. Also: ИВАН, НЕ ПОМНЯЩИЙ РОДСТВА (a person) who has broken with the environment in which he was raised and has become indifferent to or even scornful of it:

- denying one's roots (origins).

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← Originally a legal term in old Russia applied to vagrants who had no passports.