'widower' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a man whose wife has died and who has not remarried. For example, you can say, "He was a widower for many years before he found love again."
India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand are all, formally or in practice, led by the son, daughter, widow, widower or sister of an earlier leader.It is in North-East Asia, however, that the persistence of the hereditary principle in politics has the most intriguing implications.
Protection of the surviving spouse can, furthermore, be achieved through homestead laws and family allowance laws that guarantee to the widow or the widower an award of income payable out of the estate for a few months immediately following the death of the other spouse.
This right is available, up to a maximum, to a widower as well as to a widow in the United Kingdom.
There, in the movable estate, the legitim (bairn's part) is still reserved to the children, the ius relicti to the widower, and the ius relictae to the widow.
On Henry of Champagne's accidental death (1197), Amalric, a widower, was induced to marry Henry's widow, Queen Isabella I, because the emperor's German advisers were hoping to get the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem (then only a thin strip of the Palestinian coast) as a fief like Cyprus.
As churches in the United States splinter into smaller, more contemporary units, I can only help but think that there is now something to believe in at a strip mall.Stephanie Kemler Superior, ColoradoSIR – Having recently become a widower, I was intrigued by Joyce Carol Oates's supposed misery in her memoir, "A Widow's Story" ("Give warning to the world", February 12th).
My brother John was a widower when he died in 1987 aged 60.
Even more painfully, Corrie's big moment was for a character the audience can no longer see: Deirdre Barlow, featured in a tribute by cast colleagues to actress Anne Kirkbride, who died in January, and whose posthumous trophy was accepted by her widower.
Davidson had made complaints in the phone call to Macmillan about how the widower was being treated at Sowerby House, Thirsk.
His allies won just 16% of the seats, well behind the Pakistan People's Party led by Asif Zardari, the widower of Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister assassinated last year.
The widower stands outside her tiny terraced house, arms folded, glowering fiercely.
