vidualadj.
/ˈvɪdjuːəl/ Of or belonging to, befitting, a widow or widowhood; widowed.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [adjective] > widowed > relating to or characteristic of widow
widowly1532
vidual?1550
widowish?1555
widow-like1577
widowed1609
widowy1628
?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 37 The estate of widual clennesse is than most fytt, whan [etc.].
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Vedouile, viduall, widow-like.
1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον vi. 282 Others there bee that have kept a viduall chastitie even in wedlocke.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Tim. v. 12) ‘Cast off their first faith’: Not that of their baptisme.. but their viduall promised chastity and service to the Saints.
1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence iii. 106 One may as well say, Virginal, or Conjugal, or Vidual Prudence as any of these.
1752 S. Richardson Corr. (1804) III. 192 Shall we show Harriet, after a departure glorious to the hero, in her vidual glory?
1876 World 5 12 She too retains still a deeply vidual costume.
1897 F. Thompson New Poems 34 She..Who in most dusk and vidual curch, Her Lord being hence, Keeps her cold sorrows by thy hearse.
1897 F. Thompson New Poems 44 No more shall you sit sole and vidual.
Derivatives
ˈvidually adv.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [adverb] > in manner of widow
widow-like1581
vidually1818
widowly1909
1818 J. Brown Psyche 93 If marriage solace she prefers Before a solitary pillow, Or wearing vidually the willow.
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adj.?1550