Meanings
adjectivedowerless (not comparable)
- not comparableLacking 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 […]
1980, Mary Diane McCabe, “Chapter Three: The Miracle of the Cock”, in A critical study of some traditional religious ballads, Durham University, page 37Synonyms: dowryless
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveLacking a dowry; dowryless.
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adjectivelacking a dowry
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Origin
- Englishdower
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishdowerless
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