wifehood
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈwaɪfˌhʊd/
- In her memoir, she reflects on the lessons learned during her time in wifehood.
Examples
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Many women find that wifehood brings new joys and challenges to their lives.
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She found the husband man, struck her deal, and lived with it until the meeting on the National's lower level moving walkway, after which, following two days of emotional numbness and physical activity at the normal level of her wifehood and motherhood in Chevy Chase, early the third morning she stepped out to her guest house to use that extension and called him out, or rather she tried to call him out.
Fiction book (1991) -
Rather, she should never accept wifehood as a métier.
Fiction book (2001) -
She told me that motherhood was far better than wifehood and that I had chosen the right half of the equation to balance my budget on.
Fiction book (1993) -
She had been, before my uncle claimed her for ordinary wifehood, a minor chanteuse in Milwaukee and seemed to anticipate fashions.
Fiction book (1994) -
"If Abigail was not advocating new roles and equal rights, and hence was no precursor of modern feminism in questioning motherhood and wifehood, what was poor John to remember when he was asked to remember the ladies?
Academic text (1996) -
After many years in wifehood, she felt fulfilled by her family life.
Synonyms
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8.6
The role and status of being a married woman
Being married and having the duties of a husband or wife
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word wifehood comes from wife and the old ending -hood, which means 'state' or 'condition', as in childhood or brotherhood. So wifehood is the 'state of being a wife'.