Posts in December 3, 2015

A reference to a woman as the “late widow” does not mean that she is deceased. There’s a good chance that the reference indicated she had remarried and was no longer single. The word “deceased” is frequently used to mean “dead.”  “Late” in this sense probably means that she was “formerly” a widow. Her being referred to as the “late widow of Samuel Sargent” does not mean that her deceased husband had returned from the dead.