Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Widowhood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Widowhood.
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- noun the state of being a
widow ;widowhood
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Examples
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However, he picks up a reticule, which the thief in his fright has dropped, discovers in it the address he wants, and actually ventures to call on Madame Caroline Derville, who possesses, in addition to viduity, all the other attractions catalogued above.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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The charter proceeds upon the resig - nation of Christian More, domiiia Bruntshiel, in her pure viduity, and bears date at Tillibody the 15th of July of the year 1416.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
Gammerstang commented on the word viduity
(noun) - Widowhood; from Latin viduus.
--Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
January 17, 2018