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# dowerless

«dowerless» in Mova's school dictionary: **having no dower, that is, with no money or property…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (dowerless) (old use, rare)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dowerless/#m1)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dowerless/#x1)
- Being dowerless, she went out to work for her bread. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dowerless/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dowerless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dowerless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.