What's the difference between unmarried and wifeless?

Unmarried


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unmarried women had a higher risk of death than married women.
  • (2) However, unmarried women under 18 must obtain parental consent or written permission from their legal guardian or from a judge to undergo the operation.
  • (3) The unmarried men won 8-1, showing that being married doesn't mean you can score whenever you like.
  • (4) The Missouri data show a substantial difference in the smoking rates of married (23.2 percent) and unmarried (40.9 percent) women.
  • (5) While screening all women who were unmarried would detect 93% of those with chlamydia, the positive predictive value of 10.7% was not much higher than the overall prevalence.
  • (6) The most important risk factors for other preventable causes were found to be the mother being Maori (RR 4.35, CI 3.12-6.06), having a low birth weight infant (RR 3.56, CI 2.07-6.13) and being unmarried (RR 3.45, CI 2.47-4.82).
  • (7) Then one day I was at the hairdresser's and I read that the actor playing Cordelia was pregnant, but was going to carry on with the part and make her into an unmarried mother.
  • (8) Interviews regarding AIDS knowledge and related behavior change were conducted with a random sample of 409 unmarried individuals 18-39 years of age in Richmond, Virginia, between March 18 and April 3, 1987.
  • (9) The study group consisted of 283 unmarried students at several schools who were, on average, 19 years of age.
  • (10) Similarly, unmarried patients without a confidant had an unadjusted 5-year survival rate of 0.50, compared with 0.82 in patients who were married, had a confidant, or both (adjusted hazard ratio, 3.34; 95% confidence interval, 1.84 to 6.20; P less than .0001).
  • (11) Unmarried women with supervised deliveries are more likely to have financial support from the father of the child.
  • (12) By multiple logistic regression analysis, the odds of experiencing major weight gain were independently associated with low family income (odds ratio (OR) = 1.8 (95 percent CI, 1.0-3.3) ) compared with favorable income, and with becoming married (OR = 3.3 (1.7-6.3) ) or remaining unmarried (OR = 2.1 (1.1-4.2) ) compared with men who were consistently married.
  • (13) After allowing for maternal age, parity and smoking history, there was still a reduction in birth weight in the two unmarried groups, which was mainly associated with pre-term gestation rather than growth retardation.
  • (14) These differences are primarily the result of short-term variations in the amount of time they spend married; that is, women who are unmarried when they give birth are less likely to have a second birth soon afterward.
  • (15) Women most at risk of an adverse psychological reaction to abortion are those who are unmarried, adolescents, strongly religious, and are undergoing the procedure against their wishes.
  • (16) When facing the abortion question the following are necessary: more complete information on the consequences of indiscriminate sexual relations; a wider spread knowledge of contraceptive practices; the institution of special aid to unmarried mothers so as to prevent abortion remaining the only possible solution for an unbearable situation and which hides a serious psychological risk.
  • (17) 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.
  • (18) Logistic regression analysis showed that female gender, unmarried status, and poverty were important predictors of domestic violence.
  • (19) The worst off one-fifth of the elderly (disproportionately unmarried women, minorities, and the physically impaired) receives 5.5% of the elderly's total resources, whereas the best off one-fifth receives 46%.
  • (20) Only one category of people (unmarried men and women over the age of 35) had rates that exceeded ten per cent.

Wifeless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without a wife; unmarried.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) President Kgalema Motlanthe of South Africa also emerged wifeless from his limousine for the royal reception at Buckingham Palace.

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