dowerless

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English

Etymology

From dower +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdaʊ.ə(ɹ).ləs/

Adjective

dowerless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking a dowry; dowryless.
    Synonym: dowryless
    • 1980, Mary Diane McCabe, “Chapter Three: The Miracle of the Cock”, in A critical study of some traditional religious ballads, Durham University, page 37:
      A carol (Greene no. 315) which relates how St. Nicholas helped three dowerless girls employs, in stanzas 4-6, a type of incremental repetition in which each daughter speaks in turn []

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