Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no husband; unmarried; also, deprived of a husband; widowed.
- Not managed with care or frugality; uncultivated.
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Examples
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It forecasts a mighty dilemma which the whole world of civilization, despite its will, must one time frankly face: the unhusbanded mother or the childless wife.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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A woman bringing up the rear of a small Asian contingent flanking their bride, her bouquet firmly clasped in her unhusbanded hand, told me to make sure I voted "for Liu" after I congratulated them.
Christian Nwachukwu, Jr.: The Colossus Comes on Stilts Jr. Christian Nwachukwu 2010
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A woman bringing up the rear of a small Asian contingent flanking their bride, her bouquet firmly clasped in her unhusbanded hand, told me to make sure I voted "for Liu" after I congratulated them.
The Colossus Comes on Stilts Jr. Christian Nwachukwu 2010
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A woman bringing up the rear of a small Asian contingent flanking their bride, her bouquet firmly clasped in her unhusbanded hand, told me to make sure I voted "for Liu" after I congratulated them.
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How strange to find food just sitting there-unregulated, unhusbanded-inefficient.
Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992
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It forecasts a mighty dilemma which the whole world of civilization, despite its will, must one time frankly face: the unhusbanded mother or the childless wife.
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But stout were they to face danger and laugh at pain, and for all the shadow upon their hope they lived brave and songful days -- the one a homekeeper and in her turn a mother of men: the other unhusbanded, but gentle to ignorance and sickness and sorrow through the width and length of the land.
The Art of the Story-Teller Marie L. Shedlock 1894
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Disconcerted by this damning evidence of indigestion, his countenance showed that he considered himself to have been too lenient to the wine of an unhusbanded hostess.
The Egoist George Meredith 1868
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Tony is wearing a perpetual laugh in the unhusbanded regions where there is no institution of the wedding-tie. '
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Disconcerted by this damning evidence of indigestion, his countenance showed that he considered himself to have been too lenient to the wine of an unhusbanded hostess.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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