husbandless

husbandless

English

Etymology

From Middle English husbondles, equivalent to husband +‎ -less.

Adjective

husbandless (not comparable)

1. 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.

Translations

without a husband

Finnish: miehetön

Turkish: kocasız (tr)