Assuming the only states are married and unmarried. I’m not sure if I would call a widow unmarried, in the same way I’m not sure if I would call a man with a surgically reattached foreskin uncircumcised.
Sure. (I think it’s pretty obvious in the “puzzle” context that you’re supposed to take “married” and “unmarried” as exhausting the possibilities, though.)
I’d call a widow unmarried if she wasn’t currently married.
I suppose the language usage might get complicated.
Is she still a widow, in the present tense, after she has remarried? Looking at a few definitions, it appears so, but the archtype of widow is one who has yet to remarry.
Assuming the only states are married and unmarried. I’m not sure if I would call a widow unmarried, in the same way I’m not sure if I would call a man with a surgically reattached foreskin uncircumcised.
Sure. (I think it’s pretty obvious in the “puzzle” context that you’re supposed to take “married” and “unmarried” as exhausting the possibilities, though.)
I’d call a widow unmarried if she wasn’t currently married.
I suppose the language usage might get complicated.
Is she still a widow, in the present tense, after she has remarried? Looking at a few definitions, it appears so, but the archtype of widow is one who has yet to remarry.
Marriages vows are “Till Death Do Us Part”.