What does dowerless mean?
Dowerless means Lacking a dowry; dowryless..
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/ˈdaʊ.ə(ɹ).ləs/ · adjective
Lacking a dowry; dowryless..
A carol (Greene no. 315) which relates how St. Nicholas helped three dowerless girls employs, in stanzas 4-6, a type of incremental repetition in which each daughter speaks in turn […]
Use dowerless when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dowerless means Lacking a dowry; dowryless..
Common synonyms include dowryless, unendowed.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A carol (Greene no. 315) which relates how St. Nicholas helped three dowerless girls employs, in stanzas 4-6, a type of incremental repetition in which each daughter speaks in turn […]
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