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a man who learned love's full price only after the receipt came due.
means A man whose spouse has died and who has not remarried.
from From Old English "widewa," the word for a widow, with the masculine suffix "-er" tacked on to make a man's version — so the husband's grief borrows its name from the wife's. The root reaches back to a Proto-Indo-European source meaning "to be empty" or "separated" (a likely cousin of Latin "viduus," bereft), making the word, at its bone, simply "the emptied one."
shorter oddsWidowers often die sooner than widows after loss
word rootsAdded to widow centuries later as an afterthought
remarriage gapWidowers remarry faster and more often than widows
old lawOnce kept a slice of late wife's estate
grief scienceHeartbreak can literally stun the heart's muscle