wifehood

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈwʌɪfhʊd/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality or state of being a wife. uncountable,usually
    — 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.
  2. The character or behaviour that befits a good wife; wifeliness. uncountable,usually
    — That girdle gave the vertue of chast love, / And wivehood true, to all that did it beare […].

词形变化

wifehoods plural wivehood alternative

词汇关系

相关词
motherhood

词源

From Middle English wifhode, wifhod, wifhede, from Old English wīfhād (“femininity; the female sex”), equivalent to wife + -hood.
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