spouseless

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Even the spouseless and child-free have been craving more space.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2020

Then home    To my still marriage-chamber I shall come, And spouseless, childless, watch the slow years crawl.

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar

"Nay, since Nanette ran off with a street singer and left me spouseless, I have made a vow of celibacy," hastily answered the piping voice of the lank scholar.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart

"The spouseless Adriatic mourns her love; St. Mark yet sees his lion where he stood, Spared but in mockery of his withered power."

From Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by Devereux, W. Cope

People, old men of my city, lordly wise and hoar of head, I a spouseless bride and crownless but with garlands of the dead From the fruitful light turn silent to my dark unchilded bed.

From Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles