wifedom

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The condition of marriage for a woman. uncountable
    — I have seen a procession of monks, with a nightmare of faces, wearied, dejected, purposeless, hopeless, when not brutalized with the traces of furious rebellion against their world, and in that woful panorama of debased human nature I see the figure of what we condemn women to, when we bid them grow old in listless idleness, if they fail to secure to themselves the privileges of wifedom.
  2. A woman's devotion to meeting the needs and/or desires of another, as if they were a marriage partner. uncountable
    — We suspect that Mr. Dixon has exaggerated both the extent and intensity of the defiance of common sense as well as common decency which spiritual wifedom implies.

词源

From wife + -dom.
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