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a man who learned love's full price only after the receipt came due.
means A man whose spouse has died and who has not remarried.
from From Old English "widewa," the word for a widow, with the masculine suffix "-er" tacked on to make a man's version — so the husband's grief borrows its name from the wife's. The root reaches back to a Proto-Indo-European source meaning "to be empty" or "separated" (a likely cousin of Latin "viduus," bereft), making the word, at its bone, simply "the emptied one."
- shorter odds
- Widowers often die sooner than widows after loss
- word roots
- Added to widow centuries later as an afterthought
- remarriage gap
- Widowers remarry faster and more often than widows
- old law
- Once kept a slice of late wife's estate
- grief science
- Heartbreak can literally stun the heart's muscle
for instance
king henry viii — english monarch who became widower four times after wives' deaths or annulments
cs lewis — british author who became widower in 1960 after wife joy davidman's death from cancer