Meaning of widowdom | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of widowhood.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“Taking a hoe this morning, (could find no spade but the ace,) I exhumed a toadess, perhaps a widow, living all by herself, in underground lodgings, as widows have done, and will do, again and again, till there is no such thing as widowdom in the world.”

“[“H]e and his pretty mother had had such pleasant times during that twelve month of her widowdom””

“To make her job easier in the future, she [Louise Barstead of Widowed Persons Services] has a simple and clear message to the now-married population of the world: “Prepare now for widowdom because you’ll either face it some day or you won’t be here.” Half of every married couple, unless death is simultaneous, will eventually enter the state of widowdom.”

“The story [of the film Rollover] begins with [Jane] Fonda’s socialite, ex-actress Lee Winters on the night of her widowdom.”

“She was too great a lady, in her late forties when we met and I in my sixites,^([sic]) I remote in the making of my Judgement and she remote in her piety, her widowdom, her misplaced loyalty wasted upon an object unworthy of it: her late husband, […]”

“A massive heart attack took his [her father’s] life, and in devastating sorrow, her mother sank away into a world far away from the harsh reality of her widowdom.”

“Mother was keen to see the use of her widowdom. She knew how to be of service to others, her calling, and even in grief she kept baking cookies.”

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