surviving wife
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsurvivingandwife
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surviving
adjective[before noun]
uk/səˈvaɪ.vɪŋ/us/sɚˈvaɪ.vɪŋ/
continuing to live ...
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wife
noun[C]
uk/waɪf/us/waɪf/
the woman that you are ...
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(Definition ofsurvivingandwifefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Moreover, for thesurvivingwife, such procreation could have a significance that is comparable to that of procreation in the ordinary context.
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This conclusion is supported by the assumption, which seems reasonable at least sometimes, that a man would desire to promote the interests of hissurvivingwife.
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Many family houses are now held in trust for thesurvivingwife.
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These are all very old people, many of them in extremely indigent circumstances, and great hardship is caused to asurvivingwifeor husband.
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It gives to the surviving husband of a woman who has died intestate the same rights as are enjoyed by thesurvivingwifewhen the husband has died intestate.
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That could work very great hardship particularly in the case of asurvivingwifebecause she might not have any substantial assets.
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Asurvivingwifeor husband need only have lived on the farm or occupied it for two years.
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The case may be even worse, because if thesurvivingwifein turn dies intestate the money does not go to the husband's family at all.
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On the north wall there hangs two hatchments, both to a man leaving asurvivingwife.
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In the case of a married man with asurvivingwife, within his funerary hatchment is an escutcheon displaying his arms impale the paternal arms of his wife.
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Others had surviving wives and families to return to at home, and denied having war children.
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