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单词 widow bewitched
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widow bewitched
a. A woman separated from or abandoned by her spouse, or whose spouse is away for a prolonged period; (also allusively) a discarded mistress. Also in widow bewitched (colloquial and regional). Obsolete.Cf. California widow n. at California n. Compounds 2, college widow n. at college n. Compounds 2, grass widow n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > wife whose husband is absent
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grass widow1822
wife-widow1875
golf-widow1898
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [noun] > separation > person separated > woman
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1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 1973 Welkecome, dere spouse... I was a wedowe, and now I am non.
1461 T. Denys in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 231 I pray you socour my wif, for she is wedow yet for me.
a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 16 (MED) I was wedow, and now I am noon.
1651 J. Burbury tr. L. Assarino La Stratonica iv. 150 Antiochus..consumed himself in the sufferings of desire, longing extreamly to enjoy the Widow of a Husband yet living.
1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 72 I was a Widow bewitch'd, I had a Husband, and no Husband, and I could not pretend to Marry again.
1786 Amusements in High Life xii. 113 She archly hinted that my situation, as a widow bewitched, did not make it probable I was altogether free from the tyranny of that passion, which rules the heart.
1789 W. Hayley Young Widow III. xv. 183 Caroline undertook to furnish me with constant intelligence concerning the health and affections of my dear and thus apparently deserted widow.
1809 Satirist; or, Monthly Meteor July 15 I have been exactly in the tantalizing predicament of what is sometimes called ‘a widow bewitched’.
1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers III. x. 171 Who'd ha' thought of yo'r husband, him as was so slow and sure..making a moonlight flitting, and leaving yo' to be a widow bewitched!
1901 ‘Zack’ Tales Dunstable Weir 283 Martha Barnaby..was a widdy by will, her man bein' friendly to furren parts.
1908 M. B. Lowndes Pulse of Life 370 ‘A widow bewitched is a woman,’—Rose had the grace to blush,—‘who's neither married nor single!’
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