dowerless

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^[1], 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 […]

Derived terms

• dowerlessness

 

Translations

dowryless — see dowryless