Definition of "viduity" []

• The state of being a widow; widowhood (noun)

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• "However, he picks up a reticule, which the thief in his fright has dropped, discovers in it the address he wants, and actually ventures to call on Madame Caroline Derville, who possesses, in addition to viduity, all the other attractions catalogued above."
• "The charter proceeds upon the resig - nation of Christian More, domiiia Bruntshiel, in her pure viduity, and bears date at Tillibody the 15th of July of the year 1416."