(n.) A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again.
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.
Widowhood
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower.
(n.) Estate settled on a widow.
Example Sentences:
(1) A model is developed to use marital history data from the U.S. Current Population Survey and mortality statistics from the federal registration system to estimate color differences in (a) the risk of widowhood among women in the working ages and (by the cumulative duration of widowhood.
(2) These results are discussed in light of changing patterns of divorce and widowhood in later life.
(3) This study seeks to clarify the effect of widowhood on ego identity and psychological functioning.
(4) This paper investigated the relationships of widowhood, sex, and labor force participation with the use of ambulatory physician services by elderly adults.
(5) Age and education, along with community integration, were better predictors of the variables studied than was widowhood.
(6) Mortality from suicides was greater than expected during the first years of widowhood.
(7) Implications for remarriage as a coping mechanism for widowhood and the relation of age to remarriage decisions are discussed.
(8) Self-reported marital separation or divorce and physical disability affecting employment were strongly associated with high depression scores, whereas the normative stresses of aging (widowhood, retirement, social isolation) were not.
(9) This study focused on the use and reporting of sampling procedures found in research on widowhood.
(10) For some women, widowhood brings the freedom to rediscover their identities, establish independent goals, and take on new challenges.
(11) The findings suggest that lower morale scores found among the widowed may be partly attributable to other factors commonly associated with this status and not due to the role of widowhood per se.
(12) Widowhood for women may be complicated by a lack of financial experience or knowledge, further diminishing well-being.
(13) One of the neglected areas in the study of the social structure of the family is that of widowhood, the last stage in the family life cycle.
(14) It was unusual for the hallucinations to have been disclosed, even to close friends or relatives.These hallucinations are considered to be normal and helpful accompaniments of widowhood.
(15) However, periods of singlehood, widowhood, and nuclear family life are perceived as extremely likely, particularly among female adolescents.
(16) Despite the presence of psychological distress in a significant minority, most bereaved individuals report good health, satisfactory work performance and good adjustment to widowhood.
(17) Overall, age and time since widowhood have the strongest and most consistent effects on remarriage rates for different widowed groups.
(18) Taken together, these results suggest that what appears on the surface to be a gender difference in vulnerability to the same life event turns out upon closer examination to occur because widowhood does not affect men and women in the same way.
(19) Analysis of reports of orphanhood and widowhood suggests moderately high levels of mortality.
(20) Ways of coping with problems during the first months of widowhood had significant long-term effects upon the widow's health.