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The last line of a paragraph continuing on to a new page (highlighted yellow) is a widow (sometimes called an orphan). In typesetting, widows and orphans are single lines of text from a paragraph that dangle at either the beginning or end of a block of text, or form a very short final line at the end of a paragraph. [1]
The "cry of the people oppressed in Egypt, the cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan": oppression of the poor. [10] [11] [6] The "injustice to the wage earner": taking advantage of and defrauding workers (cf. James 5:4). [12] [13] [6] Laurence Vaux's 1583 work, A Catechisme of Christian Doctrine, explains them as follows:
The Bible has written several commandments about caring for the widow, the prohibition against harming her and the duty to make her happy during the holidays, for example: "Be joyful at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your ...
Bible "Do not take advantage of a widow or an orphan." (Hebrew Bible, Exodus 22:22) "Be joyful at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns".(Hebrew Bible, Book of Deuteronomy 16:14) [17] "Leave your orphans; I will protect ...
In the church of St. Lawrence, Weston under Penyard, Herefordshire, she is depicted with St. Paul in a pair of stained glass windows dedicated to the memory of Edward Burdett Hawkshaw, the Rector from 1854 to 1912, and his wife, Catherine (a photograph nearby in the church shows that his likeness is the face given to St. Paul, while Dorcas has ...
"It dawned on me the other day: I'm a widow, I'm an orphan, because my mother also passed, and I'm an empty nester all at the same time," she said. "If you're not careful, what you've lost in life ...
Levirate marriage is a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obliged to marry his brother's widow. Levirate marriage has been practiced by societies with a strong clan structure in which exogamous marriage (i.e. marriage outside the clan) is forbidden.
Widow-and-orphan stock generally refers to a low-risk equity investment paying a high dividend. These stocks belong to large, mature companies in non-cyclical business sectors. Because of their low...