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
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
It was the vast relief of widowerhood, without dreary memories of death and burial.
From In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing
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
