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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

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 Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

Kiku was too much on his mind; this forced widowerhood with charge of a toddling boy.

From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)

This is why, after two years of widowerhood, having already passed his sixtieth year, although still physically quite youthful, he remarried.

From Fabre, Poet of Science by Miall, Bernard