What does widowery mean?
Widowery means (rare) widowerhood.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) widowerhood.
February 13 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to C. W. Stoddard My wife is at Bath with my father and mother, and the interval of widowery explains my writing.
In her version of Donne's famous Holy Sonnet X composed in his widowery: […]
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Widowery means (rare) widowerhood.
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February 13 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to C. W. Stoddard My wife is at Bath with my father and mother, and the interval of widowery explains my writing.
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