The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dowerless \Dow"er*less\, a.
Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
a. Lacking a dowry
WordNet
adj. lacking a dowry
Usage examples of "dowerless".
The young girl, a pretty blonde like her sister Charlotte, but of a less impulsive and more practical nature, had indeed attracted Denis, and, dowerless though she was, he had made up his mind to marry her, since he had discovered that she possessed the sterling qualities that help one on to fortune.
Elizabeth Mascarene, before mentioned in connection with a work of art,--a fair, dowerless lady, who smiled and sung and faded away, unwedded, a hundred years ago, as dowerless ladies, not a few, are smiling and singing and fading now,--God grant each of them His love,--and one human heart as its interpreter!
Of course the men of the distant gentry wanted no part of me, a dowerless widow who had shamed her family and married beneath her class.
Elizabeth Mascarene, before mentioned in connection with a work of art,--a fair, dowerless lady, who smiled and sung and faded away, unwedded, a hundred years ago, as dowerless ladies, not a few, are smiling and singing and fading now,--God grant each of them His love,--and one human heart as its interpreter!