spouseless

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

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2020

It was the contrast of this display of power and dominion with the later decline of Venetian commerce, that suggested the melancholy line, "The spouseless Adriatic mourns her lord."

From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)

It is surprising that this beau-ideal should have remained spouseless for two years after coming into his estate.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.

Had the house-front been glass, My vision unobscuring, Could aught have come to pass More happiness-insuring To her, loved as a lass When spouseless, all-alluring?

From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Hardy, Thomas

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