Definitions

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  • adjective nonstandard, of a man Widowed; left a widower.

Etymologies

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widower +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • A new female GB character could be ( Ray as recently widowered and still grieving ) Ray's teenage daughter (Amanda Bynes or someone with her comedic timing) along for the ride who eventually gets sucked in the realm and runs into Oscar...and well...you can pretty much figure out the rest..

    Aykroyd Reveals Details of New Ghostbusters ‘Leader’ and Busting Tech | /Film 2009

  • We won't even count the men who were widowered Presidents.

    "I thought it was O.K. to be single. I thought it was O.K. to not have children..." Ann Althouse 2007

  • It is true again that "off the page," in an appendix, Tolkien later conceded that Sam would in widowered old age exercise his option as temporary Ring-bearer and like Frodo take the road to the Grey Havens and pass over sea.

    'The Wrong Sow' Shippey, Tom 2006

  • I remember so well the day when I was twenty-eight and came home to find my widowered father had finally remarried.

    If There Be Thorns V.C Andrews 1981

  • I remember so well the day when I was twenty-eight and came home to find my widowered father had finally remarried.

    If There Be Thorns V.C Andrews 1981

  • I remember so well the day when I was twenty-eight and came home to find my widowered father had finally remarried.

    If There Be Thorns V.C Andrews 1981

  • I remember so well the day when I was twenty-eight and came home to find my widowered father had finally remarried.

    If There Be Thorns V.C Andrews 1981

  • I remember so well the day when I was twenty-eight and came home to find my widowered father had finally remarried.

    If There Be Thorns V.C Andrews 1981

  • They were institutions and all of the unmarried boys and girls, men and women, widowed and widowered, came and went at will, with the liberty that the chaperonage of their certain presence allowed.

    The Heart's Kingdom Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

  • A dear friend of his youth died, leaving to his care his fine, manly little son, now in his twelfth year, who had been the pride of his father's heart, the comfort of widowered, lonely years.

    Virgie's Inheritance Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 1884

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