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Widowhood

Widowhood meaning

The state or period of being a widow or widower.

Synonyms of Widowhood

Example sentences (10)

They were seen on the Queen Mother during her widowhood, and she wore them with the impressive Russian Sapphire Cluster brooch for a Ben Travers farce in 1986.

It’s long been known that widowhood can increase the risk of hospitalization and dying.

And neither remarriage nor a return to her natal home in widowhood were allowed.

By this time, she had lost all her sisters and brothers, her colleague "Red Ellen" Wilkinson died in 1947, George Bernard Shaw died in 1950, and she did not take well to widowhood.

Factors such as biological and psychological factors, diseases, mental conditions, boredom with the relationship, and widowhood have been found to contribute with the common decrease in sexual interest and activity in old age.

Himka, 5. Besides her devotion to Christianity, she was widely known for her ascetic lifestyle, especially during her 15-year-long widowhood.

It was intended to ensure her livelihood in widowhood, and it was to be kept separate as the wife's discrete possession.

Remarriage of clergy following divorce or widowhood is forbidden.

This might be performed before marriage, and after childbirth, divorce and widowhood.

Throughout her widowhood, she spent the whole of August and the eighteenth of each month alone in her chamber, which negatively affected her mental health.