单词 | widowity |
释义 | † widowityn. Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete. Widowhood. ΘΚΠ 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 c1456 R. Pecock Bk. Faith (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 278 Poul ordeynede a widowe to not take perpetual widewite, undir boond, eer she ben of lxe winter. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem i. 39 Suppose his mother in her widowetie committ huredome. 1664 Will of Earl of Panmure in A. Jervise Memorials Angus & Mearns (1861) 246 The use of the third of all his moveables in all his houses duering her widowity. 1753 Trial J. Stewart 53 The poor disconsolate lady, who now weeps over her own widowity. a1767 W. Macfarlane Geneal. Coll. (1900) II. 465 She calls her Self when in her widowity Relicta Normani de Lessly. 1795 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) X. at Wedo(w) To have sixty creels of peats led to her yearly, during her widowity. 1820 J. Clerk & B. Scrope Hist. View Forms & Powers Court Exchequer in Scotl. ix. 226 The mother...is frequently nominated tutrix, sine qua non, during her widowity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1456 |
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