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So, maybe your dad had a tough road into widowerhood and is just feeling stupid giddy right now.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2022

Christopher Columbus, after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease.

From Time Magazine Archive

His years of widowerhood had been presided over by Mrs. Stornaway, who had assumed the supervision of his child as a duty.

From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Tillie'd been killed in that crash well over a year ago and it was time he got used to his widowerhood and quit searching for her every morning.

From Waste Not, Want by Dryfoos, Dave

This premature widowerhood had revived the friendship of the two old shipmates.

From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William