Widowhood
“continence after marriage”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
widowhood · continence
in the texts
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber
The state of remaining unmarried after the loss of a spouse, presented as a virtuous grade of sanctification and recommended to the addressee.
the second, virginity from the second birth, that is, from the bath, which either, by compact, purifies in marriage, or, by choice, perseveres in widowhood;
For in short we know one of the brethren who, when on account of his daughter he had caught at a barren wife in second marriage, was made a father again as well as a husband again.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The condition of a wife bereft of her husband, mourned by Tārā and generalized into a maxim about widows.
"Wretched that I am, a wretched woman, unaccustomed to sorrow before, I shall now live out widowhood, grief, and torment, like one without a protector.
A woman bereft of her husband — let her have sons if she will, let her be filled with wealth and grain — is still called a widow by the wise.
my eternal path is broken;