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