The character or behaviour that befits a good wife; wifeliness.(noun)
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Use "wifehood" in a sentence
"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."