husbandless
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English husbondles, equivalent to husband + -less.
Adjective edit
husbandless (not comparable)
- Without a husband.
- 1922, “Prometheus Bound”, in Geoffrey Montagu Cookson, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 203:
- 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.