Widowhood

['wɪdohʊd]

(noun.) the state of being a widow who has not remarried.

(noun.) the time of a woman's life when she is a widow.

Edited by Elise--From WordNet

(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.

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In the first days of her widowhood, she sent for me, and made her Will. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
Yes, sir,' returned Mrs. Sparsit, with a kind of social widowhood upon her. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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