widowery

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widowery (uncountable)

  1. (rare) 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.
    • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
      In her version of Donne's famous Holy Sonnet X composed in his widowery: […]
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