husband
noun
a married man, especially when considered in relation to his partner in marriage.
unhusbanded
-
a word derived from
husband.
Example Sentences
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And now by servile hands, for all to see, He hastens me away, unhusbanded, Before my nuptial, having never known Or married joy or tender motherhood.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
It forecasts a mighty dilemma which the whole world of civilization, despite its will, must one time frankly face: the unhusbanded mother or the childless wife.
From Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
Lucian says: "Achilles, bewailing the death of Patroclus with unhusbanded passion, broke forth into the truth in self-abandonment to woe."
From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by John Addington Symonds
Quoth the king, 'You seem as yet unhusbanded; if you do this, we will marry you well and worshipfully.'
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
Disconcerted by this damning evidence of indigestion, his countenance showed that he considered himself to have been too lenient to the wine of an unhusbanded hostess.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
