husbandless
English
Etymology
From Middle English husbondles, equivalent to husband + -less.
Adjective
husbandless (not comparable)
- Without a husband.
- 1922, Geoffrey Montagu Cookson (transl.), Prometheus Bound, page 203 in Four Plays of Aeschylus.
- 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.
- For I am full of fear when I behold
- 1922, Geoffrey Montagu Cookson (transl.), Prometheus Bound, page 203 in Four Plays of Aeschylus.
Translations
without a husband
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