Word Meanings - WIDOWLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Becoming or like a widow.

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• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• WIDOW-WAIL
  A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub found in Southern Europe.
• WIDOWLY
  Becoming or like a widow.
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• WIDOW BIRD
  See BIRD
• BECOMINGLY
  In a becoming manner.
• WIDOWER
  A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again. Shak.
• WIDOW
  A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband. "A poor widow." Chaucer. Grass widow. See under Grass. -- Widow bewitched, a woman separated from her husband; a grass widow. Widow-in-mourning
• BECOMINGNESS
  The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.
• BECOMING
  Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
• WIDOWERHOOD
  The state of being a widower.
• WIDOW-HUNTER
  One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune. Addison.
• WIDOWHOOD
  1. The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower. Johnson clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years. Leslie Stephen. 2. Estate settled on a widow. "I 'll
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• MISBECOMING
  Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.
• MISBECOME
  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.
• DISBECOME
  To misbecome. Massinger.
• CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW
  A species of goatsucker , of the southern United States; -- so called from its note.