Definition of "wifehood" []

• The quality or state of being a wife. (noun)
• The character or behaviour that befits a good wife; wifeliness. (noun)

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• "Recently in a college history textbook, I read an interesting part that explained to me why so many young women do not think that homemaking and wifehood is the highest a woman could possibly achieve in life."
• "But here's the next turn: although old Maria Martell feels that spurning domestic wifehood is necessary if she is to pursue her dreams, her fate is not exactly to be single either."
• "Those who by virtue of wifehood and daughterhood are respectable, and those who are not respectable."