widowedadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈwɪdəʊd/, U.S.

/ˈwɪdoʊd/

Forms: see widow v. and -ed suffix¹

Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: widow v., -ed suffix¹; widow n., -ed suffix².

Etymology: Probably partly < widow v. (although this is first attested slightly later in the sense corresponding to sense A. 1) + -ed suffix¹, and partly (in sense A. 2b) < widow n. + -ed suffix².Although it is first attested slightly later than sense A. 1, sense A. 2 probably shows the original use in English (compare earlier widow v. 1 and widow n. 1). Compare (with prefix: compare forms cited at for- prefix¹) Middle Low German verwedewet , Middle High German verwitewet (German verwitwet ), past participles (also used as adjectives) of verbs rarely found in other parts of the paradigm. In sense A. 3 after classical Latin viduus, adjective (in ulmus vidua widowed elm, vītis vidua widowed vine, rāmus viduus widowed branch).

A. adj.

1. Deprived of a partner or mate, or of something essential, important, or highly valued; (hence) deserted, desolate, solitary.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] > left alone

outcasta1325

desolatec1386

lornc1475

destitute1530

widoweda1586

destituteda1680

marooned1883

waif-like1924

waifish1936

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxii. sig. Vu8 Widowed Musick, let now thy tunes be rorings, and lamentations.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ii. iv. 17 Straight from the ashes..A new-born Phœnix flies, & widow'd place resumes.

1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. 17 No Second Friendship can be found To match my mourning Widow'd Love.

a1763 W. Shenstone Elegies viii, in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 33 From Twitnam's widow'd bow'r.

1763 C. Churchill Prophecy of Famine 25 What if we seiz'd, like a destroying flood, Their widow'd plains.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Ode to Naples in Posthumous Poems (1824) 117 Widowed Genoa wan By moonlight spells ancestral epitaphs.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxiii. 122 My heart, tho' widow'd, may not rest Quite in the love of what is gone.

1908 E. V. Lucas Over Bemerton's x. 94 He sees far more with his widowed orb than the ordinary observer does with two.

1962 W. R. Rodgers in P. Sayers Old Woman's Refl. p. viii If a widowed leaf dropped from a holly-bush I'd leap a foot with the fright.

1990 J. Morrow Only Begotten Daughter (1991) i. v. 89 They picnicked on the floor, amid widowed socks and back issues of Scientific American.

a. Made or become a widow or widower; bereaved of a spouse. Also of an animal, esp. a bird: bereaved of its mate.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [adjective]

widowed1597

spouse1615

the world > animals > family unit > [adjective] > without a mate

mateless1599

widowed1730

maiden1804

the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [adjective] > unmated or bereaved

yeld1535

widowed1730

1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. ii. sig. C3 Here liues age-crooked fathers, widowed wiues.

1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. lxxxvi. 355 A pitious Storie of King Eugens widowed wife.

1677 J. Camus True Tragical Hist. Two Ital. Families ii. 141 She did nothing else but sigh and groan like the solitary widowed Turtle.

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity iii. 480 in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 480 A widow'd Daughter.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 171 Some widow'd songster pours his plaint.

1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. Introd. p. xxvi He was a widowed husband and childless father.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 5 He was a child at his widowed mother's knee.

1885 Mistletoe Bough 28/1 An acquaintance of mine—a twice widowed wife.

1904 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. May 602 The widowed bird may lose her lord, but she promptly mates again.

1946 W. S. Maugham Then & Now 141 I have a widowed sister who has two sons.

1984 J. Askham Identity & Stability in Marriage 206 Mr and Mrs C live in a council flat with..the wife's widowed father.

2008 M. Cullin Post-war Dream (2009) 133 She would be able to take care of herself, just like her widowed mother did.

b. Of or belonging to a widow or widower; characteristic of or appropriate to a widow or widower.

ΘΚΠ

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

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xcvii. sig. G The teeming Autumne big with ritch increase..Like widdowed wombes after their Lords decease.

1634 T. Heywood Mayden-head well Lost i. i. sig. B1^v What is't to me? If being a Bride, you haue a widdowed fortune.

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 455 Your widow'd hours,..with female toil And various labours of the loom, beguile.

1768 C. Shaw Monody Memory Young Lady 12 How shall I find repose on a sad widow'd bed?

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 304 For five or six and twenty years had the veteran lover..solaced himself in widowed singleness.

1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping II. iv. 76 He could only hold the poor widowed hand tenderly in his while he told her the tiny details of those last few days.

1907 E. Gosse Father & Son vii. 176 Ah, yes! she proffered much entertainment during my widowed years!

1977 M. Seymour Daughter of Darkness ii. 82 She felt wearily for the row of creams and unguents, patting and smoothing the soft widowed face.

2005 N. L. M. Petesch Confessions of Señora Francesca Navarro 36 My widowed loneliness was mournful, but I was lonely even when Eusebio was alive.

3. Of an elm or an elm branch: not supporting a vine. Also occasionally of a vine or a vine branch: not supported by an elm. Now rare.In later use chiefly with reference to or in translations of classical writers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > elms > [adjective]

elmena1513

widowed1743

elmy1757

ulmaceous1849

1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. iv. v. 195 The Hind, Weds to the widow'd Elm his Vine [L. vitem viduas ducit ad arbores].

1756 W. Mason Odes ii. 12 When pining Care..sees thee, like the weak, and widow'd Vine, Winding thy blasted tendrills o'er the plain.

1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 357 No shoots should be suffered to grow out of the firm wood, unless they are wanted in order to marry them to a widowed branch.

1823 J. Jones Moral Hours 447 What am I now? he said: a widowed elm, The vine and lovely branches torn away.

1917 W. H. Cudworth tr. Horace Odes 140 Each swain his vines to widowed elm trees marries.

1983 C. Osiek Rich & Poor in Shepherd of Hermas 152 Catullus combines the image of vidua and virgo by comparing the widowed elm..to an unmarried girl.

B. n.

With the and plural agreement. Widowed people as a class.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow > collectively

widowed1647

viduage1832

1647 Mercurius Melancholicus 11–17 Sept. 13 Neither infant teares, nor..the sighings of the widowed..can prevaile.

1779 Mirror No. 49 195 How many..are left to the helpless misery of the widowed and the orphan.

1849 Godey's Lady's Bk. Oct. 231/2 The widowed are not all forlorn.

1898 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 3 470 The single, the widowed, and the divorced.

1924 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 19 454 Maternity has different frequencies for..the widowed.

1977 B. Kaye Supernatural in New Test. iv. 25 The style and ethos of the story belong in the tradition of God..as protector of the fatherless and the widowed.

2006 P. Teo et al. Ageing in Singapore x. 134 The widowed have to cope emotionally with the loss of their spouses.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	widowed
释义	widowedadj.n. Brit. /ˈwɪdəʊd/, U.S. /ˈwɪdoʊd/ Forms: see widow v. and -ed suffix¹ Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: widow v., -ed suffix¹; widow n., -ed suffix². Etymology: Probably partly < widow v. (although this is first attested slightly later in the sense corresponding to sense A. 1) + -ed suffix¹, and partly (in sense A. 2b) < widow n. + -ed suffix².Although it is first attested slightly later than sense A. 1, sense A. 2 probably shows the original use in English (compare earlier widow v. 1 and widow n. 1). Compare (with prefix: compare forms cited at for- prefix¹) Middle Low German verwedewet , Middle High German verwitewet (German verwitwet ), past participles (also used as adjectives) of verbs rarely found in other parts of the paradigm. In sense A. 3 after classical Latin viduus, adjective (in ulmus vidua widowed elm, vītis vidua widowed vine, rāmus viduus widowed branch). A. adj. 1. Deprived of a partner or mate, or of something essential, important, or highly valued; (hence) deserted, desolate, solitary. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] > left alone outcasta1325 desolatec1386 lornc1475 destitute1530 widoweda1586 destituteda1680 marooned1883 waif-like1924 waifish1936 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxii. sig. Vu8 Widowed Musick, let now thy tunes be rorings, and lamentations. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island ii. iv. 17 Straight from the ashes..A new-born Phœnix flies, & widow'd place resumes. 1687 J. Norris Coll. Misc. 17 No Second Friendship can be found To match my mourning Widow'd Love. a1763 W. Shenstone Elegies viii, in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 33 From Twitnam's widow'd bow'r. 1763 C. Churchill Prophecy of Famine 25 What if we seiz'd, like a destroying flood, Their widow'd plains. a1822 P. B. Shelley Ode to Naples in Posthumous Poems (1824) 117 Widowed Genoa wan By moonlight spells ancestral epitaphs. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxiii. 122 My heart, tho' widow'd, may not rest Quite in the love of what is gone. View more context for this quotation 1908 E. V. Lucas Over Bemerton's x. 94 He sees far more with his widowed orb than the ordinary observer does with two. 1962 W. R. Rodgers in P. Sayers Old Woman's Refl. p. viii If a widowed leaf dropped from a holly-bush I'd leap a foot with the fright. 1990 J. Morrow Only Begotten Daughter (1991) i. v. 89 They picnicked on the floor, amid widowed socks and back issues of Scientific American. 2. a. Made or become a widow or widower; bereaved of a spouse. Also of an animal, esp. a bird: bereaved of its mate. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [adjective] widowed1597 spouse1615 the world > animals > family unit > [adjective] > without a mate mateless1599 widowed1730 maiden1804 the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [adjective] > unmated or bereaved yeld1535 widowed1730 1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. ii. sig. C3 Here liues age-crooked fathers, widowed wiues. 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. lxxxvi. 355 A pitious Storie of King Eugens widowed wife. 1677 J. Camus True Tragical Hist. Two Ital. Families ii. 141 She did nothing else but sigh and groan like the solitary widowed Turtle. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity iii. 480 in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 480 A widow'd Daughter. 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 171 Some widow'd songster pours his plaint. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. Introd. p. xxvi He was a widowed husband and childless father. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 5 He was a child at his widowed mother's knee. 1885 Mistletoe Bough 28/1 An acquaintance of mine—a twice widowed wife. 1904 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. May 602 The widowed bird may lose her lord, but she promptly mates again. 1946 W. S. Maugham Then & Now 141 I have a widowed sister who has two sons. 1984 J. Askham Identity & Stability in Marriage 206 Mr and Mrs C live in a council flat with..the wife's widowed father. 2008 M. Cullin Post-war Dream (2009) 133 She would be able to take care of herself, just like her widowed mother did. b. Of or belonging to a widow or widower; characteristic of or appropriate to a widow or widower. ΘΚΠ 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 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xcvii. sig. G The teeming Autumne big with ritch increase..Like widdowed wombes after their Lords decease. View more context for this quotation 1634 T. Heywood Mayden-head well Lost i. i. sig. B1^v What is't to me? If being a Bride, you haue a widdowed fortune. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 455 Your widow'd hours,..with female toil And various labours of the loom, beguile. 1768 C. Shaw Monody Memory Young Lady 12 How shall I find repose on a sad widow'd bed? 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. II. 304 For five or six and twenty years had the veteran lover..solaced himself in widowed singleness. 1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping II. iv. 76 He could only hold the poor widowed hand tenderly in his while he told her the tiny details of those last few days. 1907 E. Gosse Father & Son vii. 176 Ah, yes! she proffered much entertainment during my widowed years! 1977 M. Seymour Daughter of Darkness ii. 82 She felt wearily for the row of creams and unguents, patting and smoothing the soft widowed face. 2005 N. L. M. Petesch Confessions of Señora Francesca Navarro 36 My widowed loneliness was mournful, but I was lonely even when Eusebio was alive. 3. Of an elm or an elm branch: not supporting a vine. Also occasionally of a vine or a vine branch: not supported by an elm. Now rare.In later use chiefly with reference to or in translations of classical writers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > elms > [adjective] elmena1513 widowed1743 elmy1757 ulmaceous1849 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. iv. v. 195 The Hind, Weds to the widow'd Elm his Vine [L. vitem viduas ducit ad arbores]. 1756 W. Mason Odes ii. 12 When pining Care..sees thee, like the weak, and widow'd Vine, Winding thy blasted tendrills o'er the plain. 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 357 No shoots should be suffered to grow out of the firm wood, unless they are wanted in order to marry them to a widowed branch. 1823 J. Jones Moral Hours 447 What am I now? he said: a widowed elm, The vine and lovely branches torn away. 1917 W. H. Cudworth tr. Horace Odes 140 Each swain his vines to widowed elm trees marries. 1983 C. Osiek Rich & Poor in Shepherd of Hermas 152 Catullus combines the image of vidua and virgo by comparing the widowed elm..to an unmarried girl. B. n. With the and plural agreement. Widowed people as a class. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow > collectively widowed1647 viduage1832 1647 Mercurius Melancholicus 11–17 Sept. 13 Neither infant teares, nor..the sighings of the widowed..can prevaile. 1779 Mirror No. 49 195 How many..are left to the helpless misery of the widowed and the orphan. 1849 Godey's Lady's Bk. Oct. 231/2 The widowed are not all forlorn. 1898 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 3 470 The single, the widowed, and the divorced. 1924 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 19 454 Maternity has different frequencies for..the widowed. 1977 B. Kaye Supernatural in New Test. iv. 25 The style and ethos of the story belong in the tradition of God..as protector of the fatherless and the widowed. 2006 P. Teo et al. Ageing in Singapore x. 134 The widowed have to cope emotionally with the loss of their spouses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.a1586
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