wifehood

Definitions

1. The quality or state of being a wife.
   uncountable, usually
2. The character or behaviour that befits a good wife; wifeliness.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“During the week they spent at Windsor all their necessary furniture was sent in; the more ornamental articles it was decided to leave⟳ to the choice of the fair mistress, and, as she had no visits to pay⟳ or receive⟳, the occupation it gave Louisa saved her from any mortification she might have⟳ felt on sinking at once into the state of happy wifehood.”

“That girdle gave the vertue of chast love⟳, / And wivehood true, to all that did it beare […].”

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