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# dowerless

adjective (dowerless) (old use, rare)

«dowerless» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Dowerless means having no dower, that is, with no money or property brought to a marriage; poor, with nothing given to the husband (old use). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dowerless/#m1)

### In the lessons

in old tales, dowerless is used of a girl with no gift from her family, often as a sad nickname.

### Examples

- The dowerless maiden had only her kind heart. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dowerless/#x1)
- Being dowerless, she went out to work for her bread. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dowerless/#x2)
- Her friends called her dowerless because her father had no land to give. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dowerless/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «dowerless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dowerless/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«dowerless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/dowerless.html) on Mova free.