| 释义 |
spouseless, a.|ˈspaʊzlɪs, -s-|
[f. spouse n.]
1. Of a person: Having no spouse; bereaved or deprived of a spouse.
1460Pol., Rel., & Love Poems (1866) 207 Broþerles, Spouselees, ful wrecchid y-wis. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God iii. xiii. 122 Here a husband fights, and there a father; Would you be spouselesse (wiues) or fatherlesse? 1725Pope Odyss. i. 315 To tempt the spouseless queen with am'rous wiles, Resort the nobles from the neighb'ring isles. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. xi, The spouseless Adriatic mourns her lord. 1892Meredith Sage enamoured ii. Poems 1898 I. 54 Across his path the spouseless Lady cast Her shadow.
2. Characterized by the absence of a spouse.
1812W. Tennant Anster F. (1838) I. 15 In spouseless solitude without a mate. 1876Swinburne Erechtheus 583 She besought him by her spouseless fame. |