The Collaborative International Dictionary
Widowerhood \Wid"ow*er*hood\, n. The state of being a widower.
Wiktionary
n. The state or period of being a widower
Usage examples of "widowerhood".
Moreover, Lydia and Florent, to his wounded sensibility of a demi-pariah, formed the only pleasant corner in his life--were the fresh and youthful comforters of his widowerhood and of his misanthropy.
Although necessarily much weaned from the caresses and blandishments that had rendered his child so dear to him during the first year or two of his widowerhood, he had still a strong but somewhat latent love for her.
And add to that his widowerhood, his children, his ruined property, his debts, and the woman with whom he had fallen in love!
This is why, after two years of widowerhood, having already passed his sixtieth year, although still physically quite youthful, he remarried.
Margaret had entered his long widowerhood firmly and purposefully, and opened a new door to this.
The legacy of the last few years which included promotion, marriage, fatherhood, widowerhood, and the Police Medal had had remarkably little outward effect upon him.
Miriam in these first two years of his widowerhood was the same as it always had been.