noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A confidant and social support buffers a woman against the losses of retirement, widowhood , moves, and deaths.
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Her widowhood sat lightly on her shoulders, and from what Peggy gathered from her she had a favourite pub.
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Monied widowhood is their only nirvana.
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Often the horror and humility of her widowhood would drive a young widow to follow her husband on his burning pyre.
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The reason: older persons tend to form one-person households both by preference and owing to widowhood .
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The unthinking equation of widowhood for women with retirement for men has been challenged.
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The young man accepts each rationalization given by Lady Susan for her apparently scandalous behavior in the short months of her widowhood .