(n.) A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.
(n.) A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband.
(n.) To wed; to espouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that 48% of the sample either regularly checked their own skin or had it checked by another person (such as a spouse), and 17% had been screened by a general practitioner in the preceding 12 months.
(2) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(3) Nurses have a responsibility to care for the spouse caregiver as well as the patient.
(4) No significant differences in any of the measures were found in spouses.
(5) In this longitudinal study, involving twice monthly samples from each participant and carried out in two phases lasting at least six and three months respectively, we have confirmed that fluctuations in T8+ cells occur in patients with MS and also found a significant reduction in this lymphocyte subpopulation in patients' spouses but not their siblings, compared with unrelated controls.
(6) It seems to be working: nearly a quarter of online daters have met a long-term partner or spouse through the sites.
(7) Neither the sufferers and their spouses, nor the 20 couples who constituted the control group, showed any relationship between partners with respect to angular displacement.
(8) Using confirmatory factor analysis on an independent sample (N = 377), these dimensions were tested for factorial invariance across spouse and nonspouse caregivers and between caregivers of persons with cancer and those caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease.
(9) But I have heard from other people who have lost spouses in this way, and fathers and mothers, and anger is perfectly appropriate.
(10) Husband's self-care activities, uncertainty, and husband's physical and mental symptoms were concerns that spouses frequently reported at T2.
(11) Who else in American politics would be so audacious as to have one spouse accept money from foreign governments and businesses while the other charted American foreign policy?” Schweizer asks.
(12) Compared to our subjects, Coombs found spouses were either housewives or held lower level jobs rather than demanding careers, and consequently our subjects experienced greater difficulty meeting demands of everyday life (cooking, cleaning, child care).
(13) Spouses, elite elderly, and young subjects did not differ in their ability to recognize correctly recently heard stimuli or to complete word stems.
(14) Product-moment correlations for FVC of spouse pairs were 0.18 (n = 90 pairs) if neither smoked, 0.013 (n = 45 pairs) if only the wife smoked, 0.18 (n = 118 pairs) if only the husband smoked, and -0.04 (n = 83 pairs) if both smoked.
(15) Articles in the popular press notwithstanding, data from the 1984 National Long-term Care Survey indicate that a relatively small number of adult children and spouses assume the multiple responsibilities of elder care and child care or employment.
(16) On the other hand, in the "Ms" (as in other "panmixed" populations) positive assortative mating among hereditary-predisposed persons is a more significant factor influencing family transmission of EFP, since the correlation between probands and their spouses is rpp = 0.31 (p less than 0.001) in the "Ms", as compared to rpp = 0.19 (p less than 0.1) in the "Rs".
(17) Significant associations were found in the relationship of suicide potential to verbal attack by spouse (p = .03), vacillation in the last two weeks (p = .02), and vacillation since the first serious discussion of divorce (p = .02).
(18) The only factor which affected degree of adjustment was communication with the spouse.
(19) We compared self- and spouse reports of snoring and other symptoms of sleep apnea syndrome ascertained from married couples in a community-based survey.
(20) Functional status is defined as the woman's performance of activities related to her possible multiple roles of spouse, parent, homemaker, community member, and worker.
Widowed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Widow
Example Sentences:
(1) 62.1% were from disrupted families (39.5% divorced, 12.9% remarried, and 9.7% widowed).
(2) I thought she had been put out of her misery by marriage but now she is a widow.
(3) In the court of appeal, an agreement was arrived at between the widow of the deceased and the third-party insurance of the person responsible for the accident.
(4) Those with lower knowledge of AIDS were more likely to be separated, divorced or widowed, older, and more personally concerned about AIDS.
(5) Randall, a former banking computer analyst and a widower with two grownup daughters, learned on Wednesday that charges of "trafficking obscene material" had been dropped and he was to be deported.
(6) In his article, Adams also hits out at the controversial history archive in which ex-IRA members name Adams as the commander who gave the order for the widow to be killed and buried at a secret location.
(7) How delightful that the anti-marriage group is known as Blag and opposed by Glad – which has more background : [The] ruling comes with respect to claims brought by six married same-sex couples and one widower from the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont who were denied federal tax, social security, pension and family medical leave protections only because they are (or were) married to someone of the same sex.
(8) A 4-year-old girl was admitted 30 hours after being bitten by a black widow spider.
(9) The qualities of daughter versus same-sex friend relationships were described by 151 married and widowed elderly women.
(10) While companies such as Fidelity, Scottish Widows, Standard Life and Aviva will open for business, Royal London, Zurich, Axa and the Pru will not take calls until Tuesday.
(11) The mortality from tumours of the gastrointestinal tract in the Canadian population in 1970-72 was 16% higher in single than in married men (on the basis of age-adjusted rates), 25% higher in widowed men and 28% higher in divorced men.
(12) This is a right that EU citizens have been campaigning to protect as it accommodates the future care of widowed parents.
(13) Today we are starting a new series called ‘Facing my fear’, launching with an essay from a young widow who had to return to the city where she first met her late husband .
(14) Lloyds Banking Group, which includes the pension provider Scottish Widows, said it had received between 300 and 400 calls before 3pm.
(15) War widows and those on disability living allowance will be exempt from the cap.
(16) 'It seems that God punished him already,' said Hajra Catic, of the association representing the mothers and widows of 8,000 Muslim men and boys massacred by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica.
(17) Ben Emmerson QC, the lawyer acting for Litvinenko's widow, Marina, said Hague and David Cameron were "dancing to the Russian tarantella" and seeking to "cover up" evidence that the Russian state was behind Litvinenko's polonium poisoning in 2006.
(18) The long piece of cloth bearing the image of a man's face and body which is kept in Turin dates from at least 1357 when it was first displayed by the widow of a French knight.
(19) Demented patients were more liable to be placed in an institution, as were unmarried or widowed persons and people unable to prepare their own meals.
(20) Univariate comparisons showed that in both sexes undesirable life events and social problems were associated with emotional distress; in men the presence of physical symptoms and widowed, separated or divorced status also showed such an association.