What is a word which encapsulates the meaning of both the words 'widow' and 'female divorcee' in one?

I'm trying to find a word which encapsulates within it the meaning of the term 'widow' and the term 'female divorcee' implicitly.

So for example, rather than having to explicitly state:

The individual could be a widow or a female divorcee.

You could just say:

The individual is a __________.

and that word would imply both the aforementioned words.

Is there such a word?

Solution 1:

There is no such word in English. There simply isn't. Any word encompassing both widow and divorcee is going to make both of them unhappy, and the word divorcee will make many divorcees unhappy (particularly those who dumped their husbands or who think of themselves primarily as, say, molecular biologists).

Neither of them will necessarily think it suitable to be called "single" or "unmarried" or "unremarried" (which I have never heard used), and a widow may recoil at being so described, however technically accurate it might be.

Nowhere is it written that there is a single English word for every condition that someone thinks there should be a single English word for. That is why we have phrases, sentences, paragraphs and entire books.

Solution 2:

"Widow" and "Divorcee" have slightly different meanings - one where the husband is dead, and one where the marriage was dissolved.

I am unaware of a single word that covers both cases. You could use the term "Previously married", as in "She was previously married"