Widow



A  is a woman whose spouse has died and a widower is a man whose spouse has died.

Quotes

 * She is concerned for the orphan and concerned for the widow. She does not forget the man who helps others, she is a mother for the orphan; Nance, a carer for the widow, who always finds advice for the ; the lady who gives protection for refugees. She seeks out a place for the weak. She swells his collecting basket for him; she makes his collecting vessel profitable for him. For the righteous maiden who has taken her path, Nance chooses a young man of means. Nance raises a secure house like a roof over the widow who could not remarry.
 * Anonymous, A hymn to Nanshe, late, at.


 * W IDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911).


 * He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died.
 * Sir Henry Wotton, "Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton’s Wife"