husbandless

From Middle English husbondles, equivalent to husband +‎ -less.

husbandless (not comparable)

1. Without a husband.
   • 1922, “Prometheus Bound”, in Geoffrey Montagu Cookson, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 203:

     For I am full of fear when I behold
     Io, the maid no human love may fold,
     And her virginity disconsolate,
     Homeless and husbandless by Hera's hate.