WIDOWHOO

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  WIDOWHOOD. The state of a man whose wife is dead or of a woman whose husband 
  is dead. In general there is no law to regulate the time during which a man 
  must remain a widower, or a woman a widow, before they marry a second time. 
  The term widowhood is mostly applied to the state or condition of a widow.