In Latin noverca, is the wife of one’s father, who is not the mother of the person spoken of. The woman who marries a widower, he having a child by his former wife, becomes step-mother to such child.
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In Latin noverca, is the wife of one’s father, who is not the mother of the person spoken of. The woman who marries a widower, he having a child by his former wife, becomes step-mother to such child.