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dowerless

adj
/ˈdaʊ.ə(ɹ).ləs/

Etymology

From dower + -less.

  1. derived from dōs
  2. derived from dōtārium
  3. derived from doeire
  4. inherited from dower
  5. suffixed as dowerless — “dower + less”

Definitions

  1. Lacking a dowry

    Lacking a dowry; dowryless.

    • 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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