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A widow (female) or widower (male) is a person whose spouse has died and has usually not remarried. The male form, "widower", is first attested in the 14th century, by the 19th century supplanting "widow" with reference to men. [1] The adjective for either sex is widowed.
The last line of a paragraph continuing on to a new page (highlighted yellow) is a widow (sometimes called an orphan). In typesetting , widows and orphans are single lines of text from a paragraph that dangle at either the beginning or end of a block of text, or form a very short final line at the end of a paragraph. [ 1 ]
Windows Forms, also known as Winforms, is a free, open-source graphical user interface (GUI) class library for building Windows desktop applications, included as a part of Microsoft.NET, .NET Framework or Mono, [2] providing a platform to write client applications for desktop, laptop, and tablet PCs. [3]
A form of widow inheritance is part of Mosaic law in which it is known as levirate marriage (see yibbum). A feature of that practice is that the dead husband's brother must marry his dead brother's widow. That applies, however, only if the widow (and consequently the deceased husband) has no children.
A widow lies down next to her dead husband, and certain parts of both the marriage ceremony and the funeral ceremonies are enacted, but without her death. An example in Sri Lanka is attested from modern times. [173] Although this form of symbolic sati has contemporary evidence, it should by no means be regarded as a modern invention.
A man who murdered an 86-year-old widow 12 years ago has been sentenced to life imprisonment, after a re-examination of DNA evidence from his victim's fingernails led to his conviction.
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The winnowing basket, used to separate the husk from the grain, symbolizes the need to separate the outer illusory form from the inner reality. Her ugly form teaches the devotee to go beyond the outer deceptive appearances and seek the inner truths of life. [15] Dhumavati is the primordial darkness and ignorance, from which rises the world of ...