dowagerism

English

Etymology

From dowager +‎ -ism.

Noun

dowagerism (uncountable)

1. The rank or condition of a dowager.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 47, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     mansions that have passed away into dowagerism

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dowagerism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)