widower
noun
a man who has lost his spouse by death and has not remarried.
widowerhood
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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
Yet his experience of the last two hours had shown him to himself as a creature wretchedly inadequate to face the problem that confronted him—the simple problem of widowerhood.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
Huh?"—irritated her so that she would not confide her dismay at Maurice's approaching widowerhood, but ran home to a sympathetic kitchen: "Katy!
From The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
Jeremiah had married her after a brief widowerhood, principally because she was the sister of his parish priest, and had a considerable reputation for piety.
From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
