Similar words: widow, widower, widowed, hood, hoodlum, manhood, boyhood, fatherhood. Meaning: ['wɪdəʊhʊd] n. 1. the time of a woman's life when she is a widow 2. the state of being a widow who has not remarried.
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1. Her widowhood condemns her to a lonely old age.
2. Monied widowhood is their only nirvana.
3. The unthinking equation of widowhood for women with retirement for men has been challenged.
4. Her widowhood sat lightly on her shoulders[Sentence dictionary], and from what Peggy gathered from her she had a favourite pub.
5. Often the horror and humility of her widowhood would drive a young widow to follow her husband on his burning pyre.
6. The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keep up a wife's spirits.
7. Her early widowhood condemned her to lead a life of hardship.
8. This leaves them economically vulnerable when divorce or widowhood strikes.
9. The widowhood cocks are mated at Christmas, a couple of weeks after the stock birds.
10. Nothing can prepare you for the shock and grief of widowhood.
11. The overwhelming causes of poverty in rural areas were low pay and to a lesser extent old age and widowhood.
12. But for some, particularly in a generation whose men fought in the trenches, marriage was a short interval before widowhood.
13. The young man accepts each rationalization given by Lady Susan for her apparently scandalous behavior in the short months of her widowhood.
14. The reason: older persons tend to form one-person households both by preference and owing to widowhood.
15. A confidant and social support buffers a woman against the losses of retirement, widowhood, moves, and deaths.
16. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
17. Some commentators argue her appeal stems from national sympathy for her widowhood.
18. Laura Henderson : [ at her husband's funeral ] I'm bored with widowhood.
19. When did this fleeing woman who had maintained a chaste widowhood find a husband?
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