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1. • • A woman who has lost her husband by death and has not married again. The word comes (in Old English) from an Indo-European root meaning ‘be empty’, and may be compared with Sanskrit vidh ‘be destitute’, Latin viduus ‘bereft, widowed’, and Greek ēitheos ‘unmarried man’.
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   What does widow mean?

   • viúva, deixar viúvo, viúva [feminine]… Need a translator? Get a quick, free translation! WIDOW definition: 1. a woman whose husband or wife has died and who has not married again 2. a woman whose partner is….

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   How did a war widow become a god's wife?

   • The impoverished war widow, then, became god’s wife and the nation’s daughter. According to the New Poor Law (1834), widows were entitled to outdoor relief, that is, assistance in the form of money, medical services, food, and clothes, without having to enter the workhouse (Lees, 1998: 206-10).

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   How is a widow formed in English?

   • widow is formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: widow n. widge, n. Old English–1587 widow, n. Old English–

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   Who was a Victorian widow?

   • So let’s start with the Victorians. Much of what rendered the Victorian widow an exceptional figure, as Mr. Weller (see illustration on the right) proclaims in Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers (1836-37), had its roots in her identity as a single woman who was no longer under the guardianship of a husband or a father.

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   What does Widow Twankey mean?

   • the Widow at Windsor Queen Victoria after the death of the Prince Consort, in reference to her prolonged withdrawal from public life; the phrase was used as the title of a poem by Rudyard Kipling (1890). Widow Twankey the name given to Aladdin's mother in in H. J. Byron's dramatization of the story of Aladdin as a pantomime.

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   Why do people 'visit the poor widow' when calling on the bereaved?

   • Elderly widow develops panic attacks, followed by depression. Remarks like this reflect the social attitudes to widowhood which cause people to put on their 'visiting the poor widow' expression when calling on the bereaved. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

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3. nadinemuller.org › research › widows[Monograph] The Widow: A Literary & Cultural History (1837 ...

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   Mar 2, 2011 · As a woman who was but now is no longer a wife, the widow becomes a figure perpetually defined by both her past and her present, by what she once was but has ceased to be.

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   Oct 25, 2024 · A woman who has lost her husband by death and has not married again. The word comes (in Old English) from an Indo-European root meaning ‘be empty’, and may be compared with Sanskrit vidh ‘be destitute’, Latin viduus ‘bereft, widowed’, and Greek ēitheos ‘unmarried man’.

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6. bookstr.com › article › widows-in-world-literatureWidows in World Literature: Narratives of Loss and Resilience

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   Jun 29, 2023 · When a husband dies, it forces a widow to examine herself and what she means to do in the world with a new perspective. Literature explores these individuals’ significant emotional journeys via tales of widowhood as metamorphosis.

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   WIDOW definition: 1. a woman whose husband or wife has died and who has not married again 2. a woman whose partner is…. Learn more.

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   The impoverished war widow, then, became god’s wife and the nation’s daughter. According to the New Poor Law (1834), widows were entitled to outdoor relief, that is, assistance in the form of money, medical services, food, and clothes, without having to enter the workhouse (Lees, 1998: 206-10).

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   What does the verb widow mean? There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb widow , two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

10. oxfordre.com › classics › displayWidows | Oxford Classical Dictionary

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    A widow is a woman who has lost her husband to death and who has not remarried. The complexity of the phenomenon contrasts starkly with the simplicity of the definition.