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Widowhood   Listen
noun
Widowhood  n.  
1.
The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower. "Johnson clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years."
2.
Estate settled on a widow. (Obs.) "I 'll assure her of her widowhood... in all my lands."





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"Widowhood" Quotes from Famous Books



... turned now into an adjoining room, where the duke's sister, the Princess Sophie, was holding a little court. The princess had married the younger son of a princely house, but had been a widow now for years, and had lived since her widowhood at her brother's court, where she was by no means a favorite. The duchess was beloved for her gentleness and kind heartedness, by all who came in her way, but her elderly sister-in-law was disliked heartily for ...
— The Northern Light • E. Werner
... Widowhood would not have left her so abject and so helpless. If her husband's body had lain dead before her there, she could have stood beside it, and declared herself consoled by the immortal presence of his spirit. But to attend this deathbed of her belief and of her love, love that had already given itself ...
— The Helpmate • May Sinclair
... foot-log into clear water, signifies short widowhood terminating in an agreeable marriage. If the water is not clear, ...
— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller
... a great discovery, and, naturally enough, it set her weeping, for, she sobbed, it made her feel, for a minute, that she had lost her widowhood and that, after the shower, he'd ...
— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough
... because she felt completely at her ease. It seemed to her as if all her desires had fallen into slumber again, and she had a feeling akin to a determination to remain respectable. As a young girl she had withstood temptation, she had been faithful to her husband; her whole widowhood had hitherto passed without attack.... Well, the long and the short of it was: if he wished to make her his wife she would be very glad, but she would reject any bolder proposal with the same austerity as ... as ... twelve years before, when he had showed her his ...
— Bertha Garlan • Arthur Schnitzler


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