rare. [f. L. vidua widow: cf. next and -AGE.] The condition of widowhood, viduity; widows collectively.
1832. Lamb, Lett., xviii. (1865), 174. What can twenty votes do for one hundred and two widows? I cast my eyes hopeless among the viduage.
1883. trans. Uhlhorn’s Chr. Charity in Anc. Ch., Notes 409. Τὸ χήρικον in not a house for widows, but the order of widows, the Viduage.
1894. Story of My Two Wives, 67. The announcement of our wedding, composed by my bride herself, as one of the last acts of her viduage, as she termed her interconnubial state, ran thus: [etc.]. Ibid., 181. The full, unblushing honours of post-nuptial viduage thick upon them.
