单词 | widowery |
释义 | > as lemmasˈwidowery ˈwidowery n. rare the state or condition of being a widower; the period of time during which a man is a widower; (in extended use) the state or condition of having a spouse who is absent. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [noun] > husband > husband whose wife is absent > condition of grass-widowerhood1861 widowery1886 1886 R. L. Stevenson Let. 13 Feb. (1911) II. 320 My wife is at Bath with my father and mothers and the interval of widowery explains my writing. 1962 V. Nabokov Pale Fire 240 Donne's famous Holy Sonnet X composed in his widowery. < as lemmas |
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