widowery

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noun

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.”

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Meanings

nounwidowery (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountablewidowerhood

    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.

    1 more example

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

    1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
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APA

widowery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/widowery

MLA

“widowery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/widowery. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “widowery,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/widowery.

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