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
Q. And could you refer to Blue Beard after the discovery of the cause of his last widowerhood without giving offence?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
After a year of widowerhood, he wedded again; this time, a woman fourteen or fifteen years younger than he.
From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Rupert Hughes
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 Dave Dryfoos
