widow cleansing
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A tradition that requires widowed women to have sexual intercourse as a form of ritual purification.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "A group of women in western Kenya is fighting "widow-cleansing", a traditional ritual practiced by Luo ethnic communities in some of the poorer, more rural areas of the country."
- "The practices of widow cleansing, as well as widow inheritance, pose a serious risk of spreading HIV/AIDS to individuals and among the wider community."