widowhood
IPA: wˈɪdoʊhʊd
noun
- The state or period of being a widow or widower.
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Examples of "widowhood" in Sentences
- Her life before widowhood is her spiritual insurance policy.
- Women were far less frequently testators than men, and generally only in widowhood.
- It seems the so-called widowhood effect could be caused by the combined effects of stress and age-related changes in the immune system.
- The rent provided a source of income for the couple and a means of maintaining the wife in widowhood, with the advantage of keeping the main estate intact for the heir.
- First, for herself, the greater her husband's seniority, the greater are her chances of widowhood, which is in any case the destiny of an enormous preponderance of married women.
- The Lord grant you that ye may find rest -- enjoy a life of tranquillity, undisturbed by the cares, incumbrances, and vexatious troubles to which a state of widowhood is peculiarly exposed.
- Get away from Pope, from all the wives whose husbands still came home, from all the friends suddenly made awkward and distant by the widow in their midst, as if her widowhood might be a catching disease.
- She had dismissed her poor Anderling peremptorily enough; yet she would often after this look in the face of the child of her so - called widowhood, to discover what and how many traits of his father were to be seen in his lineaments.
- Furthermore, such property that women did hold came under the control of their husbands at marriage under the principle of marital unity, although they could recover in widowhood any freehold property that had been theirs before marriage and had not been disposed of (with their consent) by their husbands.
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