Widowity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of widowhood. uncountable

    "After the Huſbands deceaſe, the Wife did by the Civil Law enjoy her Huſbands precedency during her Widowity, but if ſhe marry to a perſon of inferiour quality, ſhe loſes that Precedency, L. 8. de Senat. which holds with Us and in England;"

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widowhood

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"After the Huſbands deceaſe, the Wife did by the Civil Law enjoy her Huſbands precedency during her Widowity, but if ſhe marry to a perſon of inferiour quality, ſhe loſes that Precedency, L. 8. de Senat. which holds with Us and in England;"

Etymology

From widow + -ity.

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