spouseless

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spouseless

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From Middle English spouselees, spowseles; equivalent to spouse + -less.

adjective

not comparable Without a spouse; unmarried. But the new majority materialized only because The Times chose to use survey data that counted, as spouseless women, teenagers 15 through 17 — almost 90 percent of whom were living with their parents.

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"spouseless." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/spouseless. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{spouseless_2026,
  title = {spouseless},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/spouseless},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}