Meaning of husbandship | Babel Free

Definitions

The role or status of a husband

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Hence his eternal inadequacy, and the withering scorn that accompanies it in the works of Ovid and others: In a sense⟳ the cuckold is not simply a failed husband, but an emblem of failed husbandship in general, or, worse yet (and this, I think⟳, is what happens at the hands of Renaissance authors), the cuckold intimates that husbandship can never really succeed⟳ on its own⟳ terms, as an institution created and upheld by masculine authority.”

“Thus, the price of a husbandship is higher when husbandships are scarce, and, similarly, the price of a husbandship is low when husbandships are abundant.”

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