单词 | widow life |
释义 | > as lemmaswidow life a. With the sense ‘of, belonging to, or characteristic of a widow’, as widow bed, widow life, widow state, etc. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow > life as widow lifec1175 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow > condition of widowhoodOE widowhead1381 viduity1420 widowityc1456 widow state1742 viduage1894 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7669 Affterr þatt tatt he wass dæd Ne toc ȝho wiþþ nan oþerr. Acc ledde siþþenn widdwe lif Inn alle gode þæwess. c1450 (a1425) Metrical Paraphr. Old Test. (Selden) l. 1081 (MED) Hyr wedow wedes scho layd away. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. v. sig. Ll6 O widow-nights, beare witnes with me of the difference. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. ii. 65 Our fatherlesse distresse was left vnmoand, Your widdowes dolours likewise be vnwept. View more context for this quotation 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. iv. sig. F4v O thou cold widdowe bed, sometime thrice blest, By the warme pressure of my sleeping Lord. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iv. 105 My faire sonne,..My widow-comfort, and my sorrowes cure. View more context for this quotation 1742 J. Cennick Sacred Hymns for Children of God: Pt. II 30 I bewail thine unseen Love; And this my Widow-State. 1788 Gentleman's & London Mag. June 327/2 The maiden, nuptial, and the widow life, She has adorn'd, and shines again a wife. a1851 M. W. Shelley Mathilda (1959) iv. 22 My father had often told me that however he might appear weaned from his widow sorrow,..yet he would never dare visit the spot where he had enjoyed her society. 1894 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 4 189 The old age pension, the widow pension, the orphan pension, are in vigor. 1906 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 11 621 May not conjugal abstinence be a worn-down survival, like widow-chastity, of the sacrifice of women to deceased relatives? 1925 E. von Arnim Love i. vii. 64 Christopher was careful not to say anything this time that might set her off in widow-reveries. 2001 A. Sinclair Uncovering Mind ix. 163 In her sterile, unfinished, incomplete widow state. < as lemmas |
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