widowhood

When you look at happiness studies, you see that people acclimate to even terrible events: widowhood, divorce, terrible injuries.

These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, barrenness and widowhood.

They generally granted outdoor relief to widows for the first few weeks of their widowhood, and were often driven to extend it.

Soon adultery becomes the most respectable form of marriage, and widowhood and celibacy are commonly practised.

In the first months of her widowhood therefore her whole attitude was reversed.

By the order of September 1911 twenty years of widowhood cleanse from alien pollution.