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Widow's share
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dower
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Dower (, donatio propter nuptias , Byzantine : ὑπόβολον hypobolon ; , , ) is a provision accorded by law, but traditionally by a husband or his family, to a wife for her support in the event that she should survive her husband (i.e., become a widow ). It ...
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n. money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage [syn: dowry , dowery ] a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband v. furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered" [syn: endow ]
Usage examples of dower.
I was determined to start the next day so as to be at Rome for the last week of the carnival and I begged the duke to let me give Leonilda the five thousand ducats which would have been her dower if she had become my bride.
In an instant life became an inexpressible benefaction, for it permitted me to realise I was beloved, - and death was dowered with a new horror - the fear that I should cease to know it.
He ended by declaring that whatever she had would be for her sole use, and that he would give her a dower of a hundred thousand francs.
They seemed intended for pleasure, and Nature had dowered them with great attractions.
I begged the duke to get the contract ready, and to add to her dower the sum of five thousand ducats, which I would give him when the deed was signed.
She married a professor of anatomy, and brought all her wealth to him as a dower.
Man, though born in a state of deplorable helplessness and sottish ignorance, is inherently dowered with certain rudimentary talents.
The Vekke Blood never even missed the land, because we sold it back to them and used the proceeds as my dower.
Ghillas, the only royal female of marriageable age and a dizzying dower prize.
Dowered with a proconsular imperium, he enjoyed the sumptuous panoply of riding behind twelve crimson-clad, black-and-brass-belted lictors bearing the axes in their bundles of rods.
His soul had wedded Wisdom, and her dower Is love and justice, clothed in which he sate Apart from men, as in a lonely tower, Pitying the tumult of their dark estate.
It informed her in the curtest terms that Probate having at last been obtained, he should call at the Dower House some time during the following week, when he expected to be at Claycross, to explain to her the arrangements which had been made to enable her to draw her allowance as and when she should require it.
Thus opposing grandeurs live Here if Beauty be their dower: Doth she of her spirit give, Fleetingness will spare her flower.
He confirmed Hyrcanus as high priest and dowered him with five regions as an incomeJerusalem, Galilaean Sepphora, Gazara, Amathus and Jericho.
I knew even in Aute-Ghillas that you would bring gifts to Tira Virte that have nothing to do with your lovely face, your dower, or your children.