husbandless

English

Etymology

From Middle English husbondles, equivalent to husband +‎ -less.

Adjective

husbandless (not comparable)

  1. Without a husband.
    • 1922, “Prometheus Bound”, in Geoffrey Montagu Cookson, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 203:
      For I am full of fear when I behold
      Io, the maid no human love may fold,
      And her virginity disconsolate,
      Homeless and husbandless by Hera's hate.

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