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Unwed   /ənwˈɛd/   Listen
Unwed

adjective
1.
Of someone who has not been married.  Synonym: unwedded.






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"Unwed" Quotes from Famous Books



... full of Aunt Sophys, unsung. Plump, ruddy, capable women of middle age. Unwed, and rather looked down upon by a family of married sisters and tolerant, good-humoured brothers-in-law, ...
— Half Portions • Edna Ferber

... when in consequence he began to pick and choose with a degree of fastidiousness, and when the less charming women were not married—especially when "invidious distinctions" arose between the wed and unwed, and the desirably wed and the undesirably wed-woman had to charm for her life; and she not only employed the passive arts innate with her sex, but flashed forth in all the glitter which had been one of man's accessories in courtship, ...
— Sex and Society • William I. Thomas

... doomed to an unending isolation, the drunken Paddy, the degraded white woman—each came in for a share of his benevolence. He spent the greater part of his life visiting the outcasts and outposts, beating up the unbaptised, the unconfirmed, the unwed. But his church did not suffer. He had always some fresh scheme for this on hand: either he was getting up a tea-meeting to raise money for an organ; or a series of penny-readings towards funds for a chancel; or he was training with his choir for a ...
— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson



Words linked to "Unwed" :   unwedded, unmarried, single



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