widowhood
寡妇,丧偶,寡妇身份,鳏寡孤独
Definitions
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- : the state or a period of being a widow or, sometimes, a widower.
Examples
Nonyem is a character in all of Aduba’s stories—her daily confidant, her travel companion, her source of wisdom and guidance, her hero who survived polio and war and widowhood, the person she leans on and looks up to most in the world.
Some experienced short intervals of isolation following widowhood, but few among those who could afford the expense deliberately set up home by themselves.
When you look at happiness studies, you see that people acclimate to even terrible events: widowhood, divorce, terrible injuries.
These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, barrenness and widowhood.
They generally granted outdoor relief to widows for the first few weeks of their widowhood, and were often driven to extend it.
Soon adultery becomes the most respectable form of marriage, and widowhood and celibacy are commonly practised.
In the first months of her widowhood therefore her whole attitude was reversed.
By the order of September 1911 twenty years of widowhood cleanse from alien pollution.