| 释义 |
ˈhusbandless, a.
[f. husband n. + -less.]
Having no husband; unwedded; bereaved of a husband, widowed.
1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. (1550) 4 Their vowed wyuelesse and husbandelesse chastyte is altogyther of the deuyll. 1641Earl of Strafford 12 May in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1721) iii. I. 269 One Stroke will make my Wife Husbandless. 1790Southey Lett. (1856) I. 2 Till husbandless, houseless, without wealth or land, Poor Sentiment closes by walking the Strand. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 246 Sonless mothers thou hast left us, Weeping wives and husbandless. |