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The cruelest promotion: you keep the title, lose the partner, and pay the taxes alone.
means The state or period of having lost one's spouse to death and not having remarried.
from From Old English "widewe" (widow) plus the suffix "-had," meaning a state or condition — the same "-hood" you find in childhood and knighthood. The root "widewe" traces back to a Proto-Indo-European source meaning "to separate" or "be empty," related to the Latin "viduus" (bereft, void) and Sanskrit "vidhava" (widow). Across the family of languages, the word for the bereaved was almost always feminine first — the husband's death named her before it named him.
- gender gap
- Women outnumber widowers roughly three to one
- widowhood effect
- Surviving spouse's death risk spikes soon after
- royal tradition
- Victoria wore mourning black for forty years
- sati banned
- India outlawed widow self-immolation in 1829
- language root
- Word means split or separated in Sanskrit
queen victoria — wore black mourning dress for 40 years after prince albert's death in 1861
jackie kennedy onassis — widow of jfk from his 1963 assassination until her own death in 1994