dowerless
part of speech
adjective (dowerless) (old use, rare)
meaning for a pupil
Dowerless means having no dower, that is, with no money or property brought to a marriage; poor, with nothing given to the husband (old use). tree →
sense in the lessons
in old tales, dowerless is used of a girl with no gift from her family, often as a sad nickname.
examples
- The dowerless maiden had only her kind heart. tree →
- Being dowerless, she went out to work for her bread. tree →
- Her friends called her dowerless because her father had no land to give. tree →
note
nothing for maths
Trees and pragmatics
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