ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Widowery

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Widowery is a noun meaning (rare) widowerhood.

Meaning

(rare) widowerhood.

Example Sentences

In her version of Donne's famous Holy Sonnet X composed in his widowery: […]
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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include widow, widowman, womynhood, dowager, wominhood, widder.

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