widower
noun
a man who has lost his spouse by death and has not remarried.
widowerhood
-
a word derived from
widower.
Example Sentences
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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
This was particularly true of the period of his widowerhood, between 1857 and 1867, when his lapses were such as occasionally to interfere with his public duties.
From The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion by Sir Joseph Pope
I had a dim recollection that during my grandfather’s long widowerhood there were occasional reports that he was about to marry.
From The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson
It was the vast relief of widowerhood, without dreary memories of death and burial.
From In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing
