Sentence:  ... that bedroom long-closed and musty, that sheetless bed (that nuptial couch of love and grief) with the pale and bloody corpse in its patched and weathered gray crimsoning the bare mattress, the bowed and <WSD>unwived</WSD> widow kneeling beside it ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To cause (a woman) no longer to be a wife.