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widowhood |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Widowhood \Wid"ow*hood\, 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. --Leslie Stephen. 2. Estate settled on a widow. [Obs.] ``I 'll assure her of her widowhood . . . in all my lands.'' --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: widowhood n 1: the time of a woman's life when she is a widow 2: the state of being a widow who has not remarried
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