单词 | pure widowhood |
释义 | > as lemmaspure widowhood c. Law. Chiefly in pure widowhood. Designating the status of a widow who has not remarried and is regarded as an independent legal personality, able to hold and dispose of property, land, etc., in her own right. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow > types of widow pure widowhood1427 vowess1506 king's widow1540 widow1561 Merry Widowc1567 widow mother1582 virgin widowa1644 war widow1866 1427 in W. Fraser Melvilles & Leslies (1890) III. 21 Condicyonys..quhilkis scho is bundyne..to fulfile in hir pur wyduyte. 1448 in B. Sundby Stud. Middle Eng. Dial. Material Worcs. Rec. (1963) 256 (MED) Ef..the seid Jahne ouer luve the seid Thomas Corbet, then the seid Jahne in hure pure weduhod shal relese..alle hure right and titel. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 147 (MED) Agnes þe wyfe sumtyme of Iohn perschore..beyng in pure wydewhode..grauntyd..to þe religiouse women..alle here ryȝht..in oon Mese. 1624 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1862) IV. 256 The pretendit chartour... Dame Issobell is alledgit in hir puire vidowitie to have gevin. 1666 W. Dugdale Origines Juridiciales xiii. 28 I have seen an original deed..by Alice the daughter of William de Wrottesle..in her pure Widowhood, of all that land which her father gave in frank marriage with her. 1731 Magna Britannia VI. 413/1 She survived Baldwin, and in her pure Widowhood gave to the Canons of Bolton..her Mills at this Place. 1991 Past & Present May 30 There are two particularly interesting features of this transaction. The first concerns the issue of ‘pure widowhood’. In theory a widow was entitled to freebench rights only during her ‘pure’ (that is, un-remarried) widowhood. < as lemmas |
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