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widowery

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

widowerhood

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare, uncountable

Examples

  • 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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