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Webster 1913 Edition
Widowhood
Wid′ow-hood
,Noun.
1.
The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower.
Johnson clung to her memory during a
widowhood
of more than thirty years. Leslie Stephen.
2.
Estate settled on a widow.
[Obs.]
“I ’ll assure her of her widowhood . . . in all my lands.” Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Widowhood
WIDOWHOOD
,Noun.
1.
The state of being a widow.2.
Estate settled on a widow. [Not in use.]Definition 2024
widowhood
widowhood
English
Noun
widowhood (countable and uncountable, plural widowhoods)
Translations
The period of being a widow