Definition of Dowerless. Meaning of Dowerless. Synonyms of Dowerless

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Definition of Dowerless

Dowerless
Dowerless Dow"er*less, a. Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion. --Shak.

Meaning of Dowerless from wikipedia

- at the handsomely re-modelled Vemmetofte Cloister (later a haven for dowerless damsels of the nobility). During the King's last years he had dropsy (oedema)...
- ISBN 0-312-10979-2 The Cherished Wives (1996) ISBN 0-312-13943-8 The Dowerless Sisters (1995) ISBN 0-7472-1267-8 Gildenford (1977) ISBN 0-684-14896-X...
- only hope of escape from current penury and ****ure ruin or near-ruin. Dowerless, they were pursuing it with varying degrees of ruthlessness." MacDonagh...
- forced to humble herself in order to get money to send to her daughter. "Dowerless" remains the youngest daughter Larisa, for whom the richest merchant in...
- has also been translated into English as The Girl without a Dowry, The Dowerless Bride, and The Poor Bride. Lakshin, Vladimir (1982). "Alexander Nikolayevich...
- Magarshack (1950, 117—118). The play's title is also translated as The Dowerless Bride, The Girl without a Dowry, and The Poor Bride. Stanislavski's acting...
- s****s to not only trap eligible bachelors into marriage to his flock's dowerless eligible daughters, but to convert the American scoundrels into becoming...